Sunday, May 18, 2008
Kant
He also says that since we are capable of synthetic a priori it suggests that pure reason is able to find the important truths. He also suggests that a lot of what we think to be reality is formed by the perceiving mind. Kant thinks that the doesnt passively receive information thats given from the senses. He says that it shapes and makes sense of that information in order to understand it.
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Kant believes that synthetic a priori is possible... which i find hard to understand. Apriori means to have ideas not based on experience.. which to me means in other words ones that are innate. But to be synthetic it has to be expansive.... how could something you are born with be expansive? If it is not implied in the definition itself, then the only other way to have knowledge of it is through experience... therefore, i don't think anything can be truly synthetic a priori.
I get what you're saying and i agree with you. I don't think anything can be truly synthetic a priori either.
I agree here its really a contradiction
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