Truth Part 1
1Today we started a conversation about a really interesting a fundamental question (and related questions):
What does it mean for something to be true? How do we know something to be true?
We then discussed two important schools of thought on how we know things to be true: *a priori* and *a posteriori*.
*A priori* (meaning prior to experience) things can be determined to be true without needing to make an observation of the world. Most things in math and logic fall into this school. For example, you can know that a four-sided triangle can't exist without going to Australia and searching for them.
*A posteriori* (meaning after experience) things can be determined to be true by making an observation (and ideally writing it down). For example, you can determine when camels first existed in the Ancient Near East by conducting digs, finding camel bones, and carbon dating the remains.
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