English Explanatory Dictionary

Hume's fork

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A tenet asserting that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" (universally true by mere definition) or "synthetic a posteriori" (unknowable without exact experience).

Word forms

Hume's fork

Etymology

Named after philosopher David Hume (1711–1776).

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