Kant: Metaphysics vs. Math and Science

Math and Science have limits wheras metaphysics has bounds. Math and Science are complete in themselves and there are no questions that are left unanswered with enough time, insight, and progress. Metaphysics is bounded and reason offers questions up to itself that it can't answer. Metaphysics asks questions about the nature of things themselves. In other words, metaphysics raises questions that could possibly left unanswered given alot of time and insight. However, all questions given by math and science have a final point or answer.

Kant: On cause and effect

Kant agrees with Hume in regards to the fact that we can't discover the concept of cause and effect through experience or by means of reason. However, Kant does not agree with Hume regarding that cause and effect is a result of habit. Kant feels that causation is a priori understanding applied to appearances. We can know nothing about the thing in itself but only can know about how they appear to us. Causation is a form given to experience that makes it intelligible to us. I do feel that what we know about things are in fact just what we percieve or see them as. We will never know enough about something in itself since we will always only be offered a form that is seen.

Kant: Judgements of perception vs. judgements of experience

Judgements of perception according to Kant bring together several empirical intuitions that are only subjectively valid. For example, the sun is shing broghtly and therefore I can make judegemnt that a water bottle sitting in teh sun for a while will be warm. However, such a judgement is only true for me at that particular time. Judgements of experience apply pure concepts of understanding to judgements of perception turning them into objective, universally valid laws. For example, the sun CAUSED the water to be warm. Judgements of experience are synthetic a priori laws which make natural science possible.

kant: on senses

Humans use the senses significant to them. This is definately true since we are all unique and this variety that exists between teh human race would not be possible is we did not use the senses that are in accordance with our character. Kant uses examples such as heat, color, and tastes to show that these are all ideas we have that possible will not hold ground outside our existence.

kant: on why reason exists

Kant does not feel that there is any way to know the purpose of reason's existence. However, he does offer some insight into the thought of reason's existence. He feels that reason exists to tech us that there is something beyond experience that we cannot know. Through reason, we are givena more balanced perspective on the world. I feel that Kant is correct in his hypothesis on reason's existence. Reason is what makes us test our thoughts and go beyond measures to prove them. We would question nothing in life without this reason andtehrefore many of our inventions would not have ever come about.

Kant: On math

In the beginning Kant poses four questions and on is How is pure mathematics possible? Kant then begins saying that math consists of a priori cognitions and therfore one must be able to draw connections between different concepts by means of some form of pure intuition. since math consists of synthetic a priori cognitions then some form of pure intuition is innate within us that allows these connections to happen without an prior experiences.

kant and metaphysical

kant says that metaphysical is nature experience and rational. he says that metaphysical is a concept of nature making it an experience. but kant also says that metaphysical is pure rational concepts which could never be an experience. not sure what he means by this i guess it's not one or the other i guess i can be either. kant also says that truth of falsity of the metaphysical can not be determined by experience, and kant says this is the essential part of metaphysical.

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