"[Philosophy] is fairly characterized as the a priori discipline that seeks knowledge of the..."

“[Philosophy] is fairly characterized as the a priori discipline that seeks knowledge of the intelligibility to be found in our world. … My characterization of philosophy will no doubt be a contentious one, especially among philosophers themselves. Many philosophers throughout the centuries have objected to the view that reason can discover things about the world in which we live, a view standardly known as rationalism. I confess that I have never been able to see what the problem is supposed to be here. I know of no serious philosophical arguments that purport to show that reason cannot discover things about the world; it is difficult to conceive what such an argument would even look like (wouldn’t it itself have to be an argument produced by reason purporting to tell us something about the world?).”

- Harold Langsam

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