An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Everything you can know falls into 2 kinds. Truths about ideas, like math, hold by thought alone: denying that 3 times 5 is half of 30 makes no sense. Facts about the world could always have been otherwise. Kant, and later Quine, attacked this split.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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