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| Synthetic a priori knowledge |
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| while always confirmed by experience, can never be derived from experience |
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| Analytic a priori knowledge |
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| Synthetic a posteriori knowledge |
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| Analytic a posteriori knowledge |
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| Things in themselves, they are outside of the physical world we can no nothing about them like phenomena. Kant would argue that noumena are not the same as phenomena and come before we imprint space and time on them |
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| Appearances, what we perceive and experience. We can understand and know things about phenomena unlike noumena |
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| our sensible intuitions are our sensory input or impressions which, in our minds, we place in space and time. |
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| Categories of the Understanding |
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| Copernican Revolution (Kant) |
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| Kant synthesized (brought together) rationalism and empiricism. After Kant, the old debate between rationalists and empiricists ended, and epistemology went in a new direction. After Kant, no discussion of reality or knowledge could take place without awareness of the role of the human mind in constructing reality and knowledge. |
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| an antinomy exists when two contradictory or incompatible laws exists. Kant discussed 4 antinomies. |
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| objects don't depend on forms of intuition or categories of understanding. |
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| objects in space and time are empirically real but transcendentally ideal- they depend on forms of sensible intuition and categories of the understanding. |
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| Transcendental Unity of the Apperception |
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| recognizing that a perception is our own personal perception. |
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