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A priori

Can be known independently of experience

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A posteriori

Only knowable via experience

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Analytic

A proposition that’s is true or false purely in virtue of the meaning of the words e.g. all bachelors are unmarried

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Synthetic

Not true or false purely in virtue of the meaning of the words

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Contingent

May or may not be true

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Necessary

Something that has to be true

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Innate

Ideas that already exist in the mind before we experience anything

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Empiricism

All our knowledge is based upon sense experience. Anything we know comes directly or indirectly from sense experience

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Rationalism

At least some of our knowledge comes from reason alone