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"Greta represents an a priori truth," Jamie said.

From BBC

It presents a powerful stance against traditionalism, essentialism and the concept of a priori truth that I have, basically, embraced and built my thinking around.

These two great principles, viz: That the Pure Reason sees a priori truth immediately, and out of all relation, plurality and difference, and that in the Pure Reason, in self-examination, the subject and object are identical, by their simple statement explode, as a Pythagorean system, the mental astronomy of the Limitists.

In its own light it gives to itself a priori truth, and itself as seeing that truth; and so the subject and object are identical.

But when men intuit the a priori truth, Malice is criminal, they perceive that it lies under no conditions proper, but is absolute and universal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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