On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:42:03 -0400 Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com>
writes:
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> On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> > ... I can think of many things that are probably experienced in
> > roughly the same way, not only by all human beings, but by living
>
> > things in general, across space and time, such as space and time
>
> > themselves. Second, being pretty much a Kantian at heart...
>
> Except that Kant flatly denies that space and time are experienced.
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> For Kant, space and time (and causality) are *a priori* conditions
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> for the possibility of experience, not the content of any experience
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> whatsoever.
In fact for Kant those things would be examples of what he called the synthetic a priori. In his view knowledge of such things as the axioms of geometry or the laws of arithmetic constutute a priori knowledge, since we do not need experience to know these truths. But they are not analytic either, since Kant maintained that in none of these cases were based on having their predicates contained in the subjects (as was the case for propositions like "all bachelors are unmarried"). Therefore, for Kant these things were examples of synthetic a priori propositions and such propositions were the basis for any sort of viable metaphysics.
Much of the history of philosophy over the past century has centered around debates over whether there is really such a thing as synthetic a priori, and if there is, how such a thing possible.
Jim F.
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> Shane Mage
>
> > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> > kindling in measures and going out in measures."
> >
> > Herakleitos of Ephesos
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