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George Bealer

Yale University
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    The A Priori
    In John Greco & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Wiley-blackwell. 1999.
    In the history of epistemology, discussions of the a priori have been bound up with discussions of necessity and analyticity, often in confusing ways. Disentangling these confusions is an essential step in the study of the a priori. This will be the aim of my introductory remarks. The goal of the remainder of the paper will then be to try to develop a unified account of the a priori, dealing with the notions of intuition and a priori evidence, the question of why intuitions qualify as evidence, …Read more
    The A PrioriTheories of the A Priori
  •  1358
    A definition of necessity
    Philosophical Perspectives 20 (1). 2006.
    In the history of philosophy, especially its recent history, a number of definitions of necessity have been ventured. Most people, however, find these definitions either circular or subject to counterexamples. I will show that, given a broadly Fregean conception of properties, necessity does indeed have a noncircular counterexample-free definition.
    DefinitionsMetaphysical Necessity
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    [No title]
    Oxford University Press. 1982.
    UniversalsPropositions, Misc