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kant |
-developed a new theory of knowledge that attempted to combine elements of rationalism and empiricism into a new systhesis -wrote "critique of pure reason" -agrees that our knowledge begins with experience, but does not think our knowledge is limited to what we experience -puts clear limits on human knowledge: we can know reality only as it appears to us -we can know in advance that our experiences of reality will have certain structure, we can know it for sure within phenomena |
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critical philosophy |
-undertakes a criticism of knowledge |
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pure reason |
reason as operating b itself, apart from its associations with willing and feeling |
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pure knowledge |
a priori knowledge our knowledge of causality is this... |
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empirical knowledge |
a posterior knowledge, experience -it shows us that something can be so, but it cannot show us that it must be so |
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universal knowledge |
factor of a priori knowledge can inform us about thoses instances we have not encountered ex. all water when heated WILL boil |
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phenomena |
our experiences of things, as filtered through the forms of sensibility and the categories of the understanding |
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noumena |
reality in itself, it would be impossible to see this |
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synthetic judgment |
the sky is blue most a posteriori, but some may be a priori, for example, all events must have a cause, it seems analytic, but because we know that all events have cause from the categories of understanding, not because of the term event in itself, we know it a priori |
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analytic judgment |
horses are animals, all these judgements are a priori
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sensibility |
the mind's ability passively to receive representations of physical things; the ways my mind necessarily intuits objects. into 2 forms, space and time |
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categories of the understanding |
synthesize the many representations of objects that i receive, giving coherence to this stuff and making thought about objects possible -there are twelve categories: unity, plurality, totality, reality, negation, limitation, substance-accident, cause and effect, community, possibility/impossibility, existence/nonexistence, and necessity/contingency. |
