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Thursday, December 3, 2009

"Mind and the World-Order" by Clarence Irving Lewis,1929


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A priori truths are definitive in nature ;
they specify the real because of antecedently determined criteria of what is to be called "real".
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Empirical truth is never more than probable because descriptions of matters of fact are hypothetical propositions,pragmatic in character.
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Knowledge is the result of interpreting the sensuously given by means of a priori concepts ; thus,there is no contradiction between the relativity of knowledge -to the concepts- and the independence of the object -understood in terms of the given-.
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To know is to have reason to expect that were we to act in certain ways,
our experience would present the character we expect.
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The a priori has its origin in mind,
but its applicability is a function of the world order ;
a world which would not,relative to some interpretative act of mind,
exhibit order is practically inconceivable.
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