Kant's Copernican Revolution
In Our Time: Philosophy
The a Priori Is What Comes First, Not What Comes Afterwards.
The a priori, i think the best way of understanding it is as a structure or a framework, which the mind brings to experience. And what kant wants us to see is that although most of the analytic cases are a priori and the synthetic and aposteriori cases go together, actually these categories can come apart. The really interesting case, he thinks, are the synthetic claims, which are also known a priori,. Which are not just definitional, but we can know them without going round and investigating the world.
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