More on the subject of this year's Kantian TRIcentennials: Recently I had to reconsider the importance of Samuel Clarke's 1704 Boyle Lectures, after I...
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hello forum, reading: reading kan't "critique of pure reason" and have noticed kant's heavy reliance on the term intuition. i was wondering if he ever defines...
... http://snipurl.com/intuition A19: "IN whatever manner and by whatever means a mode of knowledge may relate to objects, intuition is that through which it...
... how does it he use it to justify syntehic ... He doesn't justify it qua information, but qua necessary. And for this answer you need to read at least half...
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... It wasn't "snippy." ... Not qed. All knowledge is conditional, and those a priori conditions necessitate it. These conditions are features of our nature as...
... All knowledge is conditional, and those a priori conditions necessitate it. These conditions are features of our nature as freely cogitating beings ...
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... Some authors have suggested that animals operate with the same spontaneity of understanding that we do. What they lack is reason, they lack the ability to ...
Sorry, but I was reading one of the earlier posts on this board and came across someone's statement that Kant 'refuted' Hume... Am I the only one utterly...
... this ... Don't you think Kant saw Hume as adequately refuted by the simple fact that such a thing as "modern" mathematical physics had replaced all those...
"Although the senses are necessary for all our actual knowledge, they are not sufficient to provide it all, since they never give us anything but instances,...
Kant understand Hume to understand mathematics to be built by analysis, hence as a necessary science. Kant would use this to show that Hume did not take...
Right. So, if Hume DID read the Nouveaux Essais in manuscript, he must have been lost in reverie by the time he got to the third paragraph I quoted....
... Wrong. ... Nothing is "built by analysis," the very idea is self-contradicting. Mathematics for Leibniz is constructed, thus containing analytically...
Let's say I took the intent of Omar's phrase to be more like "basically analytic" or "done by analysis." But no one (least of all him I think) would raise a ...
... It was semantic only in the sense that Omar definitely knows better. ... Kant got his questions from somewhere, that's for sure. But your question was...
... I don't recall making that point, I don't know if it's relevant to your question. But you considered the difference between "constructed" and "synthetic"...
If only a champion of Hume would arise, I should be free of the trouble of defending him against myself. I was so short with Mr. Hume in my last, I cannot...
I see that your post was a response to Brian, but... "The Unity of Reason" by Susan Neiman explains that Kant had to re-invent reason in order to save it from ...
In fact I had the Neiman book in hand last Friday at my local college library (among my final picks), but elected not to take it out! I don't remember my...
... Yes, that's how it begins, with a background on the traditional notion of reason leading up to Kant. As Neiman wrote: "In presenting a Kantian view of the ...
John, You wrote about 'causality's lawfulness, characterizing it as a natural, psychological habit or expectation'. Would this not support the view of...
Dave, You attribute to me a statement that supports a position of Schopenhauer's that refutes Hume. But what you have placed in single quotes I don't remember...
forum, clarification: i would like clarification as to how exactly time and space are apriori, i've read and reread a critique of pure reason's sections on...
... They are a priori, meaning, they possess universality and necessity for all appearances at all times. You will never run across an appearance that isn't...
no_idea_63, i thought that concepts were a posteriori driven or that every concept arises out of sensible intuition. does kant define concepts? rlj p.s. thanks...
... Since you were on the level of time and space, we're not actually talking about concepts, but forms. I don't think anything is being driven, either concept...
forum, kant makes a distinction between the subdivisons of general logic, empirical and pure knowledge. question: what is pure knowledge? is it simply analytic...
... It sounds like you're asking about the distinction between pure and applied logic (the latter Kant calling "empirical"). Pure logic takes no heed of its ...
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