Kants Descates Onto Critique

Question 1

K agreed w Descartes that by definition…

Answer 1

Triangles are 3-sided.

But pointed out that if you don’t have a triangle in the first place, then it wont have 3 sides anyway.

Question 2

K argued that just as you can define something is an analytic way…

Answer 2

Doesn’t necessarily make it real.

‘A unicorn has one horn’ may be true but doesn’t makes them exist.

Question 3

What’s a predicate?

Answer 3

A property or quality of something.
Predicate of a rose, is its fragrance.
Predicates tell us something about the nature of a thing.
Descartes claims existence is a predicate of God.

Question 4

Kant: ‘Existence is not…

Answer 4

A predicate’
It’s not a property, quality or characteristic.
Instead the predicate gives us information about the subject.
For K, existence is part of the concept of God, doesn’t prove he exists.

Question 5

Existence as synthetic

Answer 5

For K, all statements abt existence are synthetic.
They must be verified.
Gs existence is like anything, with synthetic existence that needs to be verified.