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Hume Peter Millican, Tampere, Sept 2006 General Philosophy Hume’s Fork Enquiry IV starts with a vital distinction between types of proposition: Relations of ideas can be known a priori (i.e. without dependence on experience) by inspecting ideas; hence their falsehood is inconceivable and they are necessarily true. e.g. Pythagoras’ Theorem. (E 4.1) 3 × 5 = ? × 30. (E 4.1) All bachelors are unmarried. The modern term is analytic (as understood e.g. by Ayer): “true in virtue of its meaning”. Matters of Fact Matters of fact can’t be known a priori, and their truth / falsity are equally