Synthetic a priori judgments
Synthetic a priori judgments David Hume thought there are two categories of knowledge; knowledge that is independent of experience which tell us nothing about the world, and knowledge that is derived from experience. Immanuel Kant came to the conclusion there is another kind of knowledge independent of experience that can tell us something about the world. This kind of knowledge falls under what he calls synthetic a priori. To understand synthetic a priori, some distinction must be made. The first distinction is between a priori and a posteriori. Knowledge that is independent of experience is a priori, universal, and is a necessary truth. They are universal by being true everywhere and at the same time, and necessary true by being logically impossible in being false. A posteriori knowledge is gained from experience, and is always open to revision; such knowledge would be, “all dogs have two eyes.” This is revisable since we don’t have omniscient knowledge of the world; it is possible