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38 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 September 2012 12:25PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 September 2012 08:53:28PM 0 points [-]

while rationalists claim it to be intrinsic a priori.

Rationalists claim that some but not all knowledge is a priori. So I think your position might be rationalism.

Comment author: asparisi 26 September 2012 09:12:34PM 2 points [-]

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.