Hey Alrighty, I'm doing a paper on a priori nature, and I need to come up with things beyond what kant suggested... like, a priori natural self improvement, like we see things that will benefit us, but thats not really that different from what kant said. Uhm like, maybe the need to find an ally, like, when you walk into a room you judge and automatically subconsciously spot a potential bond if the need arises.... in the same way that humans have a desire for justice, it's a priori SO does anyone know of any a priori concepts? thanks folks, greatly appreciated
i think language is a priori . we are born with symbols , and can use them without instruction . this is the absolute necessity for for expressing even one a priori aspect of ourself . like a bird can sing , our song is also true .
We are taught language. However, even before language, we must learn language. We must understand. Perhaps this priori nature is the desire to understand. I do not know though. I suggest investigating this.
i'd think the first desire would be to be understood , and really Wahhh! i do insist that you understand me . i observe that human babies do communicate with elemental phonemes and the meaning is independent of a learned language , it is a priori meaning . after awhile , this language is relegated to the child's subconcious when a learned social language such as english becomes dominate . i have restored this language in myself , thus am bi-lingual - English/ ~Kwee . and t's easy to do . to then converse with the babies , well , is the best way i know of to confirm its fact in a contextual reality .
language is hardly an a priori, if you want to argue that we are born with inate abilities to use language, or symbols or whatever then its false, because language is learnt from external sources once born... being however is an a priori because it is a part of every single thing, everything has being. even rocks, if a thing doesnt have being then it is nothingness.
nothing. yes, nothing. nothing is "a priori". What seems a priori for us now was the a posteriori experiences of our non-human ancestors recorded through evolution. Namely: Language (audio-symbolic manipulation), Care for kin, teritoriality, love and an instict for exploration. I was forced to explain because saying that the human mind is "tabula rasa" is a blatant denial of human nature. Apart from it, everything is blank, though. There is no "purely mental" reality. It is a construct of the misguided pursuit of classical metaphysics.
whatever that ment i have no idea, i dont think it had a meaning.... but language is certainly not a priori....
language is a priori , not particularly english . babies babble and they will converse in this a priori language if not particularly discouraged by adults . to simply and harshly judge that it has no meaning is at least ignorant and otherwise evidence that the babble language has been culturely . generationally suppressed . i find the best speakers of this language in america are among the native tribal peoples and the rainbow family . suppression has not been complete . i am glad for that . let us not war against our own nature , ever again . let there be peace , else our earth will die because as we treat ourselves so we do to all nature . in this we are simple . we are born singing .
