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    Supports→A proposition that is thought together with necessity is an a priori judgment

    Necessity — the property of something being unable to be otherwise — cannot be derived from experience

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    Experience in fact teaches us that something is constituted thus and so, but not that it cannot be otherwise. Hence, if … a proposition is thought together with its necessity, then it is an a priori judgment.

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