PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: A Priori And A Posteriori, Inductivism, Logical Truth
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Francis bacon (1561- 1626) had claimed that the proper way for science to. Hume awoke him from his dogmatic state because his argument troubled him proceed was to enumerate all the relevant facts and phenomena and then reason from them general principles by induction. So he agreed judgement is a priori, prior to all experience. But if reason is allowed to go generating truths a priori we may never know when it has gone wrong, since it cannot be contradicted by experience. Ex) leibniz was famous for his principle of sufficient reason, according to which there must be a reason why something is the case and not something else. Kant agreed with newton and (ume(cid:495)s suspicion of metaphysical arguments. So kant sets himself the task of demonstrating how a priori knowledge is possible. Synthetic judgement i must represent the concept in intuition. This is the presence of the faculty of sensibility, not that of the faculty of understanding.
