I have trouble distinguishing between analytic and a priori for example. Do they just have the same meaning with 2 different ways of saying it or is there some other distinction? — ladyphoenix86
why is 'synthetic a priori' different to 'analytic a posteriori'? — ladyphoenix86
That's Kripke's necessary aposteriori in a nutshell. — Mongrel
For example, the world in which the capital is Cannes instead. — The Great Whatever
I suppose it could be possible if you hold a view such that knowledge of the operations of a language is impossible without world-knowledge. — The Great Whatever
How can a proposition that is necessary (and known to be necessary) be knowable only aposteriori? Kripke’s answer appeals to our knowledge of which properties are essential. He argues, quite plausibly, that we know apriori that properties like non-identity, being human, being not made out of clay, and being made out of molecules are essential properties of the things that have them. So we know apriori that if things have these properties, then they have them necessarily. — Soames
but we are talking here about the empirical world, France and Paris as they now stand. — John
All you have to do is recognize that having Paris as its capital is essential to the thing we call France. — Mongrel
I'm not sure why that seems bewildering. — Mongrel
P2 is also true by virtue of the definitions of '7', '5', '+', and '12'. — andrewk
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