At 12:22 PM 4/20/2015, Frederik Stjernfelt wrote:
Sorry for having rattled Franklin's empiricist sentiments with references to the a priori! Empiricists seem to have an a priori fear of the a priori but no philosophy of science has, as yet, been able to completely abolish the a priori . . .
This is clearly one philosopher's opinion, but to another rattled empiricist it sounds like anthropocentric question-begging. Does the information that distinguishes food from poison in the gene of E. coli or the nervous system of C. elegans depend on an a priori logic? Do I need an a priori logic to distinguish food from poison?
From what sources do you choose your logical a priori information? Howard
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