At B19, Kant summarizes the general problem of pure reason in synthetic a priori judgments. The vicissitudes that have affected last century’s philosophy are, this sense, confirmation its significance: knowledge has indeed crossed all major philosophical currents twentieth century, being treated wide variety ways by phenomenologists, logical empiricists, and pragmatists. One most original treat...

According to Michael Thompson's defence of neo-Aristotelian naturalism in meta-ethics, (i) ‘[t]he concept life-form is a pure or priori, perhaps logical, concept’, and (ii) human, as we human beings have it, an priori concept’ (p. 57). Here I show argument for be unsound, hoping thereby shed light on the neglected subject prioricity concepts more generally.

DATA TYPE See DATA ABSTRACTION ABSTRACTION (The result of) a process of simplification, to describe something at a more general level than the level of detail seen from another point of view. This is often achieved by omitting details specific to individual cases or to methods of implementation. For example, a realtor’s description of a house may leave out architectural detail so that it is an ...

This paper extends the notion of ditopology to the case where openness and closedness are given in terms of {em a priori} unrelated Drading functions. The resulting notion of graded ditopology is considered both in the setting of lattices and in that textures, the relation between the two approaches being discussed in detail. Interrelations between graded ditopologies and ditopologies on textur...

Profiles of atmospheric state parameters retrieved from remote measurements often contain a priori information which causes complication in the use of data for validation, comparison with models, or data assimilation. For such applications it often is desirable to remove the a priori information from the data product. If the retrieval involves 5 an ill-posed inversion problem, formal removal of...