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Single Idea 20943

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic]

Full Idea

The categories of oneness and manyness are the basis of what Kant terms 'synthetic judgements a priori'.

Gist of Idea

Kant bases the synthetic a priori on the categories of oneness and manyness

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 1 'First'

A Reaction

This is a solution to the paradoxes of one and many that bothered Plato. I think it is best seen in our capacity to count things, and the individuation which must precede that. Atomism and holism.

Book Reference

Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.19

Related Idea

Idea 13259 It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]