This is why, when one studies philosophy, one does well to pretty much ignore anyone who claims that the universe is completely knowable a priori.
May I add that a failure to ignore these people is a very bad sign for a student: no one (or at least no one significant) has ever claimed this!
Kant claimed one could know most of the interesting things a priori, even if one couldn't know everything.
Straight from Wikipedia.
I just had to stare at this a while. We can have papers published about this, we really ought to be able to get papers published about Friendly AI subproblems.
My favorite part is at the very end.
Trivialism is the theory that every proposition is true. A consequence of trivialism is that all statements, including all contradictions of the form "p and not p" (that something both 'is' and 'isn't' at the same time), are true.[1]
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