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Single Idea 16931
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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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
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Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject
[Kant]
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16927
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Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject
[Kant]
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16928
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Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori
[Kant]
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16930
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Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality
[Kant]
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16929
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7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12
[Kant]
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16931
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Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic
[Kant]
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16910
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Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure
[Kant]
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16913
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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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16911
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Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object
[Kant]
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16912
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Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause
[Kant]
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16916
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A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves
[Kant]
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16915
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A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses
[Kant]
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16914
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A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility
[Kant]
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16919
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Geometry rests on our intuition of space
[Kant]
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16917
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All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time
[Kant]
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16920
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Numbers are formed by addition of units in time
[Kant]
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16918
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Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts
[Kant]
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16921
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If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left
[Kant]
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16922
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Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles
[Kant]
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16923
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I admit there are bodies outside us
[Kant]
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16924
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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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21447
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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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16925
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Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience
[Kant]
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11833
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The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us
[Kant]
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21441
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'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience
[Kant]
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21955
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My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume
[Kant]
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21957
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'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know
[Kant]
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