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Other: Empiricists about knowledge like to claim that knowledge is due to sensory experience, while rationalists claim it to be intrinsic a priori. I see knowledge as an active process of updating: it's heavily laden with sensory experiences but you need some starting state, and I think that starting state is an implicit part of your knowledge. The two aren't separable.
Rationalists claim that some but not all knowledge is a priori. So I think your position might be rationalism.
That depends on the Rationalist (Spinoza arguably denies this in his idealism, and one could argue that Plato is a rationalist who believes that all knowledge is a priori.) but the point here is that I think that knowledge always has an empirical part and a rational part.
In other words, I reject the a priori/a posteriori demarcation.