Kant And Hume Flashcards
Synthetic knowledge
Like humes matters of fact
Ex-swans are white, depends on experience
Does he agree with empiricism
Yes knowledge behind with experience but adds that it doesn’t follow that it arrises from experience.
Analytical knowledge
Equal to relation of ideas
Rectangle has four sides
A priori knowledge
That which comes before sense experience
Pure knowledge
A posteriori knowledge
That which comes after sense experience
Empirical knowledge
Tautologies
Logically true statements that are true in themselves
Tall man is a man
Copernican Revolution
Pure concepts of understanding
Do not derive from experience but experience derives from them
Synthetic a priori Knowledge
Experience of the world determined by our minds.
Mind possess things which is entirely independent of sense experience yet which informs us as to how things are connected in experience
Perception of space
External world does provide the things that we sense yet it is our mind that firms and processes this information giving it order allowing us to see and to comprehend it.