PHIL 2080 Lecture Notes - Irreversible Process, Ululation
19 Jul 2013
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Phil 2080; kant; october 29 lecture notes: kant is going to try to show, with much difficulty, that everything which happens has its cause. page 50 b13, that judgment kant says is a synthetic a priori judgment. It is a synthetic a priori judgment: it is known before experience, irrefutable by experience, and its contrary does not imply as a contradiction. It would be a matter of fact for hume because it could not be demonstrably certain. It cannot be demonstrated or discovered by thought alone. For hume since there are only two ways of justifying a judgment, either through demonstration or experience, this judgment could not be demonstrated by experience and indeed as a result this judgment could not be known. All there are constant conjunctions, events constantly following others, and the feeling of determination in the mind. For hume indeed the idea of cause, of necessary connexion, is something that we acquire on the basis of experience.
