Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond

Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 16:113-132 (2012)
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The notion of the a priori is an important legacy of Kant for modern philosophy of science. In the course of the 20th century, a variety of proposals was put forward all of which claimed to overcome the inadequacies of Kant’s original proposal of a synthetic a priori for modern science.

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