Discusiones Filosóficas
ISSN 0124-6127
MIRANDA-ROJAS, Rafael. The hybridity of what is necessary a posteriori. []. , 21, 36, pp.53-78. 09--2020. ISSN 0124-6127. https://doi.org/10.17151/difil.2020.21.36.5.
This paper proposes that what is necessary a posteriori corresponds to a hybrid case of justification, without this leading to an extreme rationalist commitment. In the cases of necessary a posteriori statements, the logical principles that they instantiate are of a priori nature, and the information of statements such as "Water is H2O" or "Pain is the stimulation of the fiber - c" are knowable only a posteriori. In order to explain this hybridity, how the reductio strategy allows accepting a moderate rationalist approach will be discussed. Bootstrapping will be considered as a paradigmatic case of hybrid epistemic justification. The discussion regarding the a priori - a posteriori nexus tends to establish a hierarchy in which one of the epistemic accesses is privileged, which will be rejected.
: Necessity; a posteriori; a priori; conceivable; possible.