KnowraA priori and a posterioriLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to A priori and a posteriori, each with the reason it gives.All 12Related 11Compared with 1Immanuel KantRelated: Kant uses this distinction to ask whether experience-independent knowledge can expand what we know.RationalismRelated: Rationalists treat some knowledge as a priori rather than derived from sensation.German idealismRelated: The movement asks how reason can yield knowledge that is both necessary and related to experience.Analytic–synthetic distinctionRelated: The distinction is often paired with the question of how truths are known.Transcendental idealismRelated: Kant’s account depends on principles that structure experience before any particular observation.Innate ideasRelated: Innateness concerns a possible origin of ideas, while this distinction concerns how knowledge is justified.Tabula rasaRelated: The distinction clarifies what tabula rasa says about the sources of knowledge.Neo-KantianismRelated: The status of a priori principles became central to Neo-Kantian accounts of science.Critique of Pure ReasonRelated: Kant asks how knowledge independent of experience can apply to objects we encounter.AbsoluteRelated: This distinction tests whether independence from conditions means independence from experience.Theoretical philosophyRelated: The distinction organizes disputes about how philosophical claims can be known.