Anisley Sanchez
PHIL 110
Kant's synthesis of rationalism and empiricism
I personally find Kant's distinction between analytic and synthethic judments useful. For Kant, knowledge claims usually come in the form of judgements in which something is asserted or contradicted. Kant elucidates that a judment is a mental oepration by which we join a subject and a predicate. The predicate works to qualify the subject in some way. With analytic judgements the predicate is already contained in the notion of the subject; analytic judgements somewhat utilize circular reasoning. Any contradiction of an analytic judgement represents a rational contradiction. As opposed to analytic judgements, synthethic judgements do not have their predicates contained
PHIL 110
Kant's synthesis of rationalism and empiricism
I personally find Kant's distinction between analytic and synthethic judments useful. For Kant, knowledge claims usually come in the form of judgements in which something is asserted or contradicted. Kant elucidates that a judment is a mental oepration by which we join a subject and a predicate. The predicate works to qualify the subject in some way. With analytic judgements the predicate is already contained in the notion of the subject; analytic judgements somewhat utilize circular reasoning. Any contradiction of an analytic judgement represents a rational contradiction. As opposed to analytic judgements, synthethic judgements do not have their predicates contained