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Single Idea 16912

[filed under theme 18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts ]

Full Idea

Concepts are of such a nature that we can make some of them ourselves a priori, without standing in any immediate relation to the object; namely concepts that contain the thought of an object in general, such as quantity or cause.

Gist of Idea

Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause

Source

Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 282)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.37


A Reaction

'Quantity' seems to be the scholastic idea, of something having a magnitude (a big pebble, not six pebbles).


The 27 ideas from 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic'

Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject [Kant]
Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject [Kant]
Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori [Kant]
Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality [Kant]
7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12 [Kant]
Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant]
Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure [Kant]
I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations [Kant]
Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object [Kant]
Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause [Kant]
A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves [Kant]
A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses [Kant]
A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant]
All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time [Kant]
Geometry rests on our intuition of space [Kant]
Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts [Kant]
Numbers are formed by addition of units in time [Kant]
If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left [Kant]
Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles [Kant]
I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances [Kant]
I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object [Kant]
Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant]
The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us [Kant]
'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume [Kant]
'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant]