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Have any formal ontologies focused on the category of knowledge, rather than the content?
The ontologies I am aware of select core categories they believe the world may be constructed from, presumably because they take them as irreducible.
Aristotle had what now appears a slightly quirky ...
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Kantian Subjectivism Contradiction?
Kant rendered the judgments of reason as subjective, neither narrating nor accurately reflecting the reality of things.
"We only sense from external objects, thus perception does not express ...
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Is it knowledge about x to know that we can't know x?
I'm studying the Critique of Pure Reason. We have the claim:
We can't know anything about things in themselves
Which seems to have corollaries of the form:
We can't know x about things in themselves
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Why does Immanuel Kant never doubt the existence of matter and external world themselves?
Why does Immanuel Kant never doubt the existence of matter and external world themselves? Does he presuppose their existence? If so, why?
What I mean to ask is according to Immanuel Kant if we know ...
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What does Kant mean by object of the senses in relation to pure geometry?
In studying Kant I am running into a problem. Kant refers to pure geometry as only having objective reality under the condition that it refers only to objects of the senses (Prolegomena, Note I). If ...
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Does (possibly) non-humans have a priori knowledge?
In the article “Absolute provability and the safe knowledge of axioms” by Timothy Williams
http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/assets/pdf_file/0004/35338/provabilityfinal.pdf
The author notes
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Can Kant's objective or universal judgments be subjective (in the ordinary sense)?
What inspired this question is Prolegomena §18, particularly this passage:
All of our judgments are at first mere judgments of perception; they
hold only for us, i.e., for our subject, and only ...
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What is the relationship between Kant's idea of the "transcendental grounds of experience" and his " transcendental theory of cognition"
So I understand the former as simply being what must be the case for experience to be possible (the a priori forms), yet I am not so sure of the latter. Does it simply mean that an object always has ...
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Kant's philosophy for analytic philosophers
Can someone explain the role of Kant's philosophy in analytic philosophy?
As an example, is the noumenon/phenomenon-distinction important for analytic philosophers? When we see a green tree, is the ...
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Does Kant implicitly commit the paralogism of pure reason when saying that to have a representation it is necessary to accompany it with 'I think'?
In Caygill's Kant Dictionary entry of 'I Think' there is this part:
Kant further claims that 'I think' is the necessary vehicle/form/accompaniment of experience: to have a representation it is ...
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A "combining logic" moment in Kant
In "Ethical Theories and Moral Guidance", Pekka Väyrynen goes over proposals and arguments concerning the knowability of moral claims. Kant's relevant proposal (in the second Critique) is:
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Is "there are synthetic a priori truths" a synthetic a priori truth?
Disregarding any modern objections to the division of synthetic/analytic and a priori/a posteriori, how would one argue for or against this claim, using Kant's definitions and assumptions?
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In Kant, what would happen if singular objects that we perceive in space didn't necessarily have the spatial properties that we perceive them to have?
In Paul Guyer's Kant, section "Space and Time: the pure forms of sensible intuition", Guyer argues that "Kant’s argument for transcendental idealism is incomplete."
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Kant's Prolegomena Note I - Geometry being an objective representation of nature
I'm trying to understand this part of Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Note I to "How is pure mathematics possible?":
It would be completely different if the senses had to ...
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On Kant's third antinomy (CPR)
The thesis of Kant's third antinomy is based on the fact that, if the antithesis was true (i.e. there is no causality through freedom and thus only causality by natural laws) then, for any given ...
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