The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant - The Critical Problem and Synthetic a priori Judgments
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The Differences Between a Priori and a Priori Knowledge
A posteriori means knowledge which comes after or from experience and a priori meansknowledge which comes before experience very simply. Synthetic propositions pull together the elements sensory data of a thing so that you know what is going on via experience. These synthetic propositions are important because it means that reason alone cannot work out the facts of the world one cannot rationalize truth It's going to be based on experience and as such applicable to subjectivities of the senses and the mistakes cognition hence why the transcendental critique is so important.
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