PHILOS 178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: A Priori And A Posteriori
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A priori judgments may still be restricted to objects given in the senses even though they are known through reason alone. The rst moment in the sequence of questions is unconditioned. The unconditioned brings you outside the bounds of experience. Unconditioned concepts are called ideas and have no application within the bounds of experience. Distinguish (1) skepticism of the external world and (2) skepticism about reason. This is skepticism about for instance, the existence of god. More radical form: skepticism of ability to apply a concept like cause (which always involves some notion of necessity). Kant thinks that resolving skepticism (2) entails the resolution of skepticism (1). When we look at what metaphysics must be for it to be a science re vera we see the dif- Culties with the question. (kant"s notion of science: math, logic, a systematic and consistent body of knowledge where there is demonstration. The truths bear certain sup- porting relations to one another.
