Hume's fork

English Alternative forms en Hume's Fork Etymology en philosopher David Hume = 1711 1776. Proper noun en epistemology A tenet asserting that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" (universally true by mere definition) or "synthetic a posteriori" (unknowable without exact experience). en 2020 Jean-Etienne Joullié; Robert Spillane The Philosophical Foundations of Management Thought Lexington Books 9781793630162 105 https://books.google.com/books?id=l0cHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105&dq=%22Hume%27s+fork%22&hl=&cd=5&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Hume's%20fork%22&f=false Hume's Fork would belong to the category of sophistry and illusion. As Hume's Fork is presented as a tool with which knowable propositions can be distinguished from nonsensical ones, critics need to show that the two categories of knowable propositions are inadequate, or that nonsensical propositions can be true or false.