Immanuel Kant would call the former "rendering a synthetic judgement" and David Hume termed the latter revealing the a priori knowledge. Plato would call both s

Immanuel Kant would call the former "rendering a synthetic judgement" and David Hume termed the latter revealing the a priori knowledge. Plato would call both simply giving substance to the forms. It seems none of this is something new. It's just that you no longer need a good education to learn about old ideas; you can come up with them on your own.