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A priori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (509 words) |
 | Descartes considered the knowledge of the self, or cogito ergo sum, to be a priori, because he thought that one needn't refer to past experience to consider one's own existence. |
| John Locke, in admitting that reflection is a part of experience, gave a platform by which the entire notion of the "a priori" might be abandoned. |
| Modern use of a priori began with Immanuel Kant who added the distinction between synthetic and analytic truths to the distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. |
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