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What can be known "a priori," or independent of experience?

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What can be known "a priori," or independent of experience?

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  1. Logic is the answer, a priori deals purely in logic. A=B B=C therefore C=A. This is an a priori statement known as a tautology.


  2. God created the universe perfect. We see a covering made by  our misconceptions over it. That which lies beneath is a proiri.

  3. Only tautologies can be known a priori - for example, it is either raining or it isn't. As Hume and others have pointed out, a priori statements can tell us nothing about the world, because nothing can be proven to exist a priori - a posteriori experience is required for this.

  4. nothing.

    if you were born without any senses whatsoever, you would never have a single thought.

    God cannot be known about until somebody tells you about God, whether it be God himself or some kind of messenger he sends down, or somebody you know. before even you speculate that a god could exist you need to perceive what it is he would be meant to have created. without experience you cannot know that earth exists, that light does, that trees exist, that time exists, nothing. God is in part an explanation to questions experience has brought to which experience had not brought answers.

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