Four types of Knowledge:
a priori: independent of sensory experience. Apply universally and necessarily. May or may not be consistent with experience.
a posteriori: dependent on sense experience so it is limited and contingent. Scientific conclusions are a posteriori.
Analytic: those whose predicates are contained in their subjects and add no new knowledge. eg, 2+2=4. This does not tell us anything new, only explains the concept of '2','+','=' and '4'. All analytic judgements are known a priori, but not all a priori judgements are analytically true.
Synthetic: those whose predicates are wholly distinct from their subjects, thus generally informative but require justification by reference to some outside principle. A proposition is synthetically true if it contains no logical contradiction. All a posteriori judgements are synthetic, but not all synthetic judgements are a posteriori.

Analytic a posteriori judgements do not arise.
Synthetic a posteriori judgements are everyday knowledge based on experience. (Cannot tell us anything about God or morality.)
Analytic a priori judgements include logical truths. (cannot establish God or morality in this way.)
Synthetic a priori judgements are only possible for providing new information that is necessarily true. Provides the basis for knowledge. Everything else is either uninformative or unjustifiable. It is independent of experience and necessarily true, but it provides new knowledge and is consistent with experience. Moral law is synthetic a priori.

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Note on Max is a Kant, created by natasha.kacove on 02/06/2014.