PHI 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: A Priori And A Posteriori, Experiential Knowledge
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Rationalistic and empirstic philosophy: kant wanted to correct both of these philosophies, the truth is usually between two extremes, we need both: thinking and senses, achievement: Compared his approach to philosophy with copernicus (earth orbits the sun) Without our own intervention to understand reality and build our knowledge, there is no human knowledge: not completely successful, but new ideas were born because of him. First sentence in critique of pure reason: there can be no doubt that all our cognition begins with experience. : no experience == no human knowledge, similar to locke. An idea that kant accepted: believed in knowledge can be innate (found in your mind -- descartes) no, objects stored in our sense turn on our ability to know. Everything comes from the object we see through our 5 senses. Qualification of experience: everything starts with experience, but it doesn"t mean that everything comes with experience, all knowledge does not come from experience!!!
