Dear Howard, lists -
The distinction between food and poison belongs, I would say, to the apriori
concepts of biology - not of logic.
As indicated, this is not the Kantian conception of a priori. For those
interested in the competing notion of a priori, see ch. 8 of my Diagrammatology
(2007).
Dear Franklin, lists -
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 - even
logical positvism had to
