Organon F

Volume 32, August 2025, Issue 3, Pages 348–354

ISSN 2585-7150 (online)

The paper raises a quandary for the naturalist friend of truth who rejects the a priori outright. The quandary is that instances of the T-scheme are analytic, hence knowable a priori. The naturalist must either renounce their friendship with truth or soften their stance on the a priori. The paper recommends the latter option.

Analytic; a priori; naturalism; truth.

Author

Howard Sankey

Affiliation

University of Melbourne

Address

School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

E-mail

chs@unimelb.edu.au

Received

11 July 2024

Revised

1 December 2024

Accepted

6 April 2025

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Sankey, H. (2025). A Quandary for the Naturalist. Organon F, 32(3), 348–354. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32304

Chicago

Sankey, Howard. 2025. "A Quandary for the Naturalist." Organon F 32 (3): 348–354. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32304

Harvard

Sankey, H. (2025). A Quandary for the Naturalist. Organon F, 32(3), pp. 348–354. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2025.32304

© Howard Sankey

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