Hume on The Epistemological Status of Metaphysical Statements

Stanley Tweyman
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Stanley Tweyman: University Professor, Humanities and Graduate Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022, vol. 7, issue 4, 1-10

Abstract: My paper examines critically the widespread view that Hume confines meaningful propositions to those which are analytic (a priori), and those which are synthetic empirical, thereby rejecting synthetic a priori propositions as meaningful. What I show is that Hume does recognize certain metaphysical synthetic a priori propositions as meaningful, thereby dispelling the traditional view that Hume rejects all synthetic a priori as meaningful.Keywords: analytic a priori, synthetic empirical, synthetic a priori, meaning

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Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26417/453wrq61

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