Monday, May 19, 2008

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.

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