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Kant as antiformalist: logical possibility ≠ real possibility (e.g., a shape between two parallel lines.
Problem: if I construct a triangle in my imagination, how do I know its angles add up to 180 degree and not 180 + 0.0001 degrees? That would axiomatically not be a triangle
Arithmetic is a technique for calculating magnitudes of given objects. It has no default objects.
— Dec 24, 2023 08:16PM
Problem: if I construct a triangle in my imagination, how do I know its angles add up to 180 degree and not 180 + 0.0001 degrees? That would axiomatically not be a triangle
Arithmetic is a technique for calculating magnitudes of given objects. It has no default objects.
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The dynamical principles of the understanding (modality & relation) ground the law-governedness of nature. So while the law of gravitational attraction is empirical, its properties of immediacy and necessity are not.
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Early Kant:
- metaphysics as something negative, studying everything that wasn’t phenomenal
- disagreed w/ the Wolffians who began science with metaphysics and syllogistically deduced empirical propositions
- Preferred the Newtonian method of trusting the results of empirical science and philosophizing in response to that
Later Kant:
- metaphysics provides foundations of sci by finding the concepts applied to it
— Dec 24, 2023 07:40PM
- metaphysics as something negative, studying everything that wasn’t phenomenal
- disagreed w/ the Wolffians who began science with metaphysics and syllogistically deduced empirical propositions
- Preferred the Newtonian method of trusting the results of empirical science and philosophizing in response to that
Later Kant:
- metaphysics provides foundations of sci by finding the concepts applied to it
