Knowledge is Synthetic a Priori

Short paper on Kant 600 words

Kant famously–and controversially–argued that some knowledge is synthetic a priori. Can you explain in your own words what Kant might have meant by this, and can you give an example of the sort of knowledge that Kant believed possessed this strange status?

HINT: To answer this question in a clear and well-organized manner, you might want to first explain and illustrate Kant’s distinction between apriori and aposteori knowledge and also his distinction between empirical and synthetic judgments.

Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long.

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INTRODUCTION

Priori and posteori knowledge

The terms a posteori and a priori are very common in philosophy and are used in the distinction of the types of argument, knowledge and justification.Apriori justification or knowledge is always independent of experience and therefore it bases its arguments on mere assumptions and stereotype (Dicker, 2011). The description of a priori is very funny and interesting to some extend because for instance, it is stated that it is usually possible to see that a certain statement is true when you are just lying on a couch. This simply means that a priori does not even require any investigations or research but it only makes people believe in it. For example, it is a priori knowledge that most of the successful women in the society have already divorced with their husbands and some are even single. In addition, it is believed that all bachelors are not married (Guyer, 2010)…………….

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