Apriorism (sometimes a priorism or a-priorism) in modern times, refers to epistemological positions that assume that certain knowledge can be justified without reference to experience, or, in a narrower sense, that knowledge is entirely possible without any experience. The truth of statements is to be proven by logical deduction from true premises. Only those presuppositions come into question that can be regarded as necessities of reason independent of any experience. Critics accuse apriorism of committing a “petitio principii”, i.e. proving something that is already assumed to be true. Johan
Apriorism (sometimes a priorism or a-priorism) in modern times, refers to epistemological positions that assume that certain knowledge can be justified without reference to experience, or, in a narrower sense, that knowledge is entirely possible without any experience. The truth of statements is to be proven by logical deduction from true premises. Only those presuppositions come into question that can be regarded as necessities of reason independent of any experience. Critics accuse apriorism of committing a “petitio principii”, i.e. proving something that is already assumed to be true. Johann August Heinrich Ulrich – a contemporary of Immanuel Kant and professor of philosophy in Jena – criticized Kant's a priorism in this sense. Kant maintained that his philosophy was firmly based on a priori categories and concepts.
== Characteristics of apriorism == The apriorism of modern times stands in the tradition of rationalism. Only eternal truths and their consequences, which have their sufficient reason in evident axioms or other a priori valid statements and thus find an ultimate justification, come into question as true statements. In addition to Euclidean geometry, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provided the model for this view. The latter is seen by many as a response to David Hume's criticism of apriorism.
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