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Assess the importance of a priori knowledge? A priori knowledge is best defined as a proposition that is known without reference to experience. Mathematical truths, innate ideas and god are examples of a priori knowledge. Each of these examples is elaborated through the famous rationalist philosophers, Plato, Chomsky and Descartes. Plato states that mathematical truths are innate. They are concepts that we are born with. Plato illustrates this through the use of a slave body. A slave boy that has no education is asked simple mathematical questions, by Plato. These questions were, for example, if you increase the size of one side, what will happen to the shape. After a series of questions, Plato came to notice that the slave boy answered all the questions correctly, which lead him to his hypothesis that mathematical truths are innate. Chomsky argued that language structures we have are innate. For example, Dutch, one of the...

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