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    A person acquires a concept from experience — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Knowledge of the proposition that water is H2O does not qualify as purely a priori

    A person acquires a concept from experience

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    In the acquisition process, however, the role of demonstrative identification may be unclear. Nevertheless, a similar argument against SK can be formulated as long as some kind of empirical knowledge is needed to acquire the water concept. Indeed, it is typically assumed that a person acquires a concept from experience—which already portends that acquisition depends on empirical knowledge. Yet if that’s right, then even knowledge of (2) has an empirical basis, since possession of the water conce

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