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    Rationalists should enlist empirical support for the existence of a priori knowledge rather than arguing purely from within rationalist assumptions

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    • 1.Rationalists should start from common ground shared with empiricists
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    • 2.Empirical support can be marshaled for claims about a priori knowledge
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    • 1.A priori knowledge is defined precisely by its independence from empirical justification, so empirical support cannot constitute its warrant.
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    • 2.Kant's Critique establishes that pure reason has its own internal standards of validation that are not answerable to sensory confirmation.
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    • 3.Seeking empirical support for a priori claims commits a category error that undermines the very distinction rationalists are trying to defend.
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    • 1.Rationalist methodology, from Descartes through Leibniz, proceeds by internal coherence and self-evidence, not by appeal to shared empiricist premises.
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    • 2.Requiring rationalists to argue from empiricist common ground presupposes empiricism's epistemic framework as the default, begging the question against rationalism.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Casullo recommends a different approach to defending rationalism. He thinks rationalists should start from common ground and that they should “enlist empirical support for the existence of a priori knowledge” (2012a: 248–249). This may be because he thinks that nonexperiential mental states are the basis of a priori justification and “nonexperiential mental state” is a natural kind term. This seems plausible because Casullo thinks that “experience” is a natural kind term (see, below, sec. 6.4).
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