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Single Idea 21954

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

Full Idea

Metaphysics can be ...the investigation of everything that can ever be cognized a priori, as well as the presentation of that which constitutues a system of pure philosophical cognitions of this kind.

Gist of Idea

Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B869/A841)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.969


A Reaction

[He excludes mathematics from this] Moore says this is Kant's most interesting definition of metaphysics (among several versions).