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Kant on triangles vs unicorns
In the critique of pure reason, according to my reading, Kant is positing that propositions of mathematics are true because they can be situated in space and time, i.e, they can be conceived in space ...
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Why are mathematical judgments legitimate while metaphysical are not, according to Kant's CPR?
In my reading of Kant's CPR (I mention this because I don't want an answer according to his other critiques), I don't seem to understand on what basis is Kant distinguishing statements in math and ...
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Can kantian categories only be applicated to objects given by the senses?
The question is inspired by the comments of this answer by @PédeLeão and I think it deserves a question of its own to have room for clarifying this.
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Kant, in German, has pretty (...
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What kind of philosophical questions are transcendental philosophical questions?
There are a lot of different philosophical questions and I'm interested in knowing what kind of questions are asked in or what kind of questions does transcendental philosophy try to answer. I've ...
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How does Kant's transcendental argument show that the basis for Skepticism is unintelligible?
I understand Kant's categories, however I don't understand their value in arguing against skepticism.
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The Copernican Principle and the Giant Void [closed]
Daniel Holz writes on a popular science blog Cosmic Variance:"The Copernican principle is a guiding foundation of cosmology. In short, it states that we are not in a privileged place in the Universe. ...
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How do modern metaphysicians respond to Kant and Wittgenstein?
As far as I've understood, Kant argued that metaphysical knowledge is impossible because the human mind is not capable enough to acquire it. Wittgenstein, on the other hand, claimed that metaphysical ...
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A Kantian view on modern physics
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Immanuel Kant, in the section discussing the Critique of pure reason:
In the Transcendental Analytic, the most crucial as well as the most ...
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What is *lost* and *gained* in repudiating the analytic/synthetic distinction?
Analytic sentences are characterized as sentences whose truth values derive from their meanings alone. The truth of synthetic sentences depend on both meaning and fact. In the early modern ...
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Can a machine, lacking reflection, be a Person?
We are well beyond Frankenstein and the experience that the machine—“it’s alive”! As we continue to rely on Suri’s for GPS directions, “self”-checkout aisles, or the artificial intelligence of robotic ...
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What is a good reference to see how noumena and phenomena are connected?
What philosophies or philosophers made attempts to unify noumena and phenomena as indistinct from each other, that is to show that they are all mere pattern representations* in a "mindspace"**? The ...
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A thought experiment: Kant vs non-Euclidean geometry
Relevant question: What was the impact of the discovery of non-euclidean geometry on Kantian thought?
First question is that I wonder:
Had Kant ever got his hands on some treatises about the early ...
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How does Kant answer the objection against mind-dependent reality - which is that I can imagine a time when there were no minds?
Kant wrote:
... if I remove the thinking subject, the whole material world must at once vanish because it is nothing but a phenomenal appearance in the sensibility of ourselves as a subject, and a ...
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Is Scruton correct in characterising the Transcendental World of Kants?
Scruton in his Sexual Desire, a philosophical investigation says
we must distinguish the world of human experience from the world of scientific observation. In the first we exist as agents, taking ...
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How to characterize Kant's usage of the term "noumena"?
Wikipedia gives an explanation of Kant's usage of the term noumena, part of which reads as follows:
By Kant's account, when we employ a concept to describe or categorize noumena (the objects of ...
