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Single Idea 16931

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics ]

Full Idea

The generation of knowledge a priori, both according to intuition and according to concepts, and finally the generation of synthetic propositions a priori in philosophical knowledge, constitutes the essential content of metaphysics.

Gist of Idea

Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic

Source

Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 274)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.24

A Reaction

By 'concepts' he implies mere analytic thought, so 'intuition' is where the exciting bit is, and that is rather vague.

Related Idea

Idea 7919 Humeans rejected the a priori synthetic, and so rejected even Kantian metaphysics [Ayer, by Macdonald,C]

The 27 ideas from 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic'

16926 Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject [Kant]
16927 Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject [Kant]
16928 Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori [Kant]
16930 Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality [Kant]
16929 7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12 [Kant]
16931 Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic [Kant]
16910 Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure [Kant]
16913 I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations [Kant]
16911 Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object [Kant]
16912 Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause [Kant]
16916 A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves [Kant]
16915 A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses [Kant]
16914 A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant]
16917 All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time [Kant]
16919 Geometry rests on our intuition of space [Kant]
16918 Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts [Kant]
16920 Numbers are formed by addition of units in time [Kant]
16921 If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left [Kant]
16922 Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles [Kant]
16924 I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances [Kant]
16923 I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
21447 I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object [Kant]
16925 Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience [Kant]
11833 The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us [Kant]
21441 'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
21955 My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume [Kant]
21957 'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know [Kant]