PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Empirical Evidence, Copernican Revolution, Noumenon
12 Aug 2020
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Apriori knowledge is knowledge that comes before/prior to sense experience and is therefore independent of sense experience. Classical philosophers would say such knowledge is verified independent of further experience. Aposteriori knowledge is knowledge that comes after/posterior to sense experience and is therefore dependent on sense experience. Analytic propositions, or tautologies, are true by definition. The predicate does not add to the meaning of the subject. All bachelors are unmarried or either a or not a. Necessarily true and epistemologically certain but also seemingly uninformative and trivially true. Predicate adds something to the subject and thus two ideas are synthesized or brought together. It is dark outside or i live in fargo. Such propositions would have to be necessarily true but informative. Every event must have a cause. 7+5=12. shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Kant contends the notion that our minds are informed by mind- independent reality is wrong.
