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Hi all readers knowledge also is not derived from some a priori capability, intuition, invention, creation, construction, faculty, or ability of the human subject 1. All depends on the interpretation of DERIVES which is not a deduction, nor?an induction, and so there seems to be nothing else, and therefore the items in this lost are "thrown away". Enter Piaget with his "tertium quid" or third alternative: DERIVES interpreted as a process of equilibration co-terminus with life. 2. Specifically, Piaget interpreted the A PRIORI via 1 - here's my version of this Smith, L. (2010). Knowledge a priori - from Plato and Kant to Piaget. In Erna Nairz-Wirth (ed.) Aus der Bildungsgesichte lernen, pp. 135-147. Vienna: Erhard Löcker. In general, there are ways of taking 'standard positions' from the past and recasting them, rather than pensioning them off. Recall that even Copernicus retained the Greeks notion of circularity of the celestial objects - getting-ahed is stepwise.