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synthetic a priori

I'll quiblle about the definition all day ... but at the end of the day it still comes down to how some sense of such things are possible.

The Euler Characteristic of a sphere is 2. Its very simple to see, to prove.
But why?
Deep Impact hits the asteroid. Roman Empire bridges still standing. The state of play is ... we believe such knowledge must be real, in the sense that knowledge can be such.

It is very difficult to parse Kant in a manner that does not give the answer that evolutionary theory (or the proper design theory) gives.
I continue to try, though, to delve for something new. It is a struggle, and so it takes time.

I feel bad for not postin, but it takes time.


Somewhere at the root of things i feel that only engineering accounts for the advances ... and i am not convinced that there can be an epistemological accounting for engineering ... for induction. Maybe "normal engineering" ... but "revolutionary engineering"?

It seems to me likely that human beings are unable to account for their highest accomplishments.


Hence, nihilism.