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95 | Liam Kofi Bright on Knowledge, Truth, and Science
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Relationship Between a Priori and Analytic Truths?
David Hume believed in a priori truths, ones that you can sort of show just by logic and analytic truths. But he also thought there were things which are synthetic, making substantial claims not just given in their definitions but really made in the world. For instance, it seems to be at the time that space has something like Euclidean structure was presupposed when we did our experiments,. We didn't test that rather when we were making other testing claims about the distance between things, the speed of which things moved, we were then presupposing it.
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