A priori knowledge is categorized into analytic and synthetic types.

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Is it true that a priori knowledge is categorized into analytic and synthetic types?

Yes. Philosophical consensus and history, famously advanced by Immanuel Kant, categorize a priori knowledge into both analytic and synthetic types.

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Wikipedia: Critique of Pure Reason

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Wikipedia: Critique of Pure Reason. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Priori Justification and Knowledge

Discusses propositions that are categorized as synthetic a priori.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Priori Justification and Knowledge. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/apriori/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Analytic / Synthetic Distinction

Connects analytic claims and the category of a priori knowledge.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Analytic / Synthetic Distinction. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Priorism in Moral Epistemology

Mentions Kant's synthetic a priori truths, confirming both types exist within a priori knowledge.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Priorism in Moral Epistemology. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-epistemology-a-priori/

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