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Ideas for Immanuel Kant, Charles Leslie Stevenson and Luke Westaway
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori
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Kant's shift of view enables us to see a priority in terms of mental capacity, not truth and propositions [Burge on Kant]
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A priori knowledge is limited to objects of possible experience [Kant, by Jolley]
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A priori knowledge occurs absolutely independently of all experience [Kant]
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One sort of a priori knowledge just analyses given concepts, but another ventures further [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 2. Self-Evidence
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Experienceless bodies have space; propertyless bodies have substance; this must be seen a priori [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge
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We are equipped with the a priori intuitions needed for the concept of right [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities
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Two plus two objects make four objects even if experience is impossible, so Kant is wrong [Russell on Kant]
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Propositions involving necessity are a priori, and pure a priori if they only derive from other necessities [Kant]
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The apriori is independent of its sources, and marked by necessity and generality [Kant, by Burge]
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A priori knowledge is indispensable for the possibility and certainty of experience [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
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Seeing that only one parallel can be drawn to a line through a given point is clearly synthetic a priori [Kant, by Benardete,JA]
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The categorical imperative is a practical synthetic a priori proposition [Kant]
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Kant bases the synthetic a priori on the categories of oneness and manyness [Kant, by Bowie]
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Kant showed that we have a priori knowledge which is not purely analytic [Kant, by Russell]
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We can think of 7 and 5 without 12, but it is still a contradiction to deny 7+5=12 [Ayer on Kant]
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A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves [Kant]
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That a straight line is the shortest is synthetic, as straight does not imply any quantity [Kant]
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That force and counter-force are equal is necessary, and a priori synthetic [Kant]
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The real problem of pure reason is: how are a priori synthetic judgments possible? [Kant]
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That two lines cannot enclose a space is an intuitive a priori synthetic proposition [Kant]
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Are a priori concepts necessary as a precondition for something to be an object? [Kant]
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7+5=12 is not analytic, because 12 is not contained in 7 or 5 or their combination [Kant]
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We possess synthetic a priori knowledge in our principles which anticipate experience [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 6. A Priori from Reason
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Reason contains within itself certain underived concepts and principles [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 7. A Priori from Convention
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If, as Kant says, arithmetic and logic are contributed by us, they could change if we did [Russell on Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic
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No analysis of the sum of seven and five will in itself reveal twelve [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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For Kant analytic knowledge needs complex concepts, but the a priori can rest on the simple [Coffa on Kant]
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A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses [Kant]
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With large numbers it is obvious that we could never find the sum by analysing the concepts [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective
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A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant]
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A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary
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We know the shape of a cone from its concept, but we don't know its colour [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object [Kant]
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Colours and tastes are not qualities of things, but alterations of the subject [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
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I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 5. Interpretation
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Kant says the cognitive and sensory elements in experience can't be separated [Kant, by Dancy,J]
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
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Appearances have a 'form', which indicates a relational order [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism
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We cannot represent objects unless we combine concepts with intuitions [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism
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I exist just as an intelligence aware of its faculty for combination [Kant]
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Associations and causes cannot explain content, which needs norms of judgement [Kant, by Pinkard]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
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For Kant, our conceptual scheme is disastrous when it reaches beyond experience [Kant, by Fogelin]
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Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique
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Understanding has no intuitions, and senses no thought, so knowledge needs their unity [Kant]
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Sensations are a posteriori, but that they come in degrees is known a priori [Kant]
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
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Kantian intuitions are of particulars, and they give immediate knowledge [Kant, by Shapiro]
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Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object [Kant]
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