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The notion of the a priori is an important legacy of Kant for modern philosophy of science. In the course of the 20th century, a variety of proposals was put forward all of which claimed to overcome the inadequacies of Kant’s original proposal of a synthetic a priori for modern science.
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Mormann, T. (2012). Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic A Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond. In: Creath, R. (eds) Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3929-1_7
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