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Epistemology Seminar: Timothy Williamson (Oxford) “Knowledge by sight and knowledge by proof”

25th November 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Abstract: Knowledge by sight is a standard paradigm of a posteriori knowledge. Knowledge by mathematical proof is a standard paradigm of a priori knowledge. However, I will argue that the two types of knowledge have so much in common that the a priori – a posteriori distinction cannot go very deep.

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