Ideas from 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic' by Immanuel Kant [1781], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic' by Kant,Immanuel (ed/tr Lucas,Peter G.) [Manchester UP 1971,0-7190-0492-6]].
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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy
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My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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16931
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Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics
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16918
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Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry
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16919
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Geometry rests on our intuition of space
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Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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Numbers are formed by addition of units in time
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic
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7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics
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Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure
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All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time
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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism
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Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us
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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge
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'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know
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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
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'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience
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I admit there are bodies outside us
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 5. A Priori Synthetic
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A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 9. A Priori from Concepts
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A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses
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12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 10. A Priori as Subjective
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A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities
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I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
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I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances
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12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation
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I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations
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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism
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Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience
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12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
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Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object
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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
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Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject
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Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 2. Space
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Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / a. Absolute time
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If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left
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