A priori

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani approaches the a priori through Kant, for whom the term is a synonym of "pure" and is opposed to the empirical: it refers to what one knows without going through experience1. He emphasizes the a priori forms of sensibility, space and time. These are empty frames that do not come from experience but ground it, since without them no perception would be possible23. To make this clear, he uses the image of yellow glasses that cannot be taken off: the a priori is immanent to everything one sees and seems to emanate from the objects themselves4. He also takes the example of the geometer, who draws out of the figure what he himself put into it through thought5. Finally, he points out that a priori does not mean without experience: all knowledge begins with experience without, for all that, deriving entirely from experience6.

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