Hume's fork

English

Etymology

Named after philosopher David Hume.

Proper noun

Hume's fork

  1. (epistemology) 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).
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