PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Pure Mathematics, Noumenon, Rational Basis Review
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[1] in the remainder of part two kant tries to accomplish four tasks: (i) explain the pure. Physiological table of the universal principles of natural science, which he does more or less in 24 26; (ii) answer hume"s doubts about causality and the possibility of science, 27 . 31; (iii) explain and elaborate the distinction between appearance (phenomenon) and thing-in- itself (noumenon), 32 35; (iv) emphasize our constitutive activity in knowledge as described above, 36 38. Kant adds an appendix to this chapter about the virtues of his account of the categories. Brie y, the axioms of intuition" characterize the spatiotemporal nature of all our intuitions. The anticipations of perception" emphasize the problem of intensive qualities, that is, of degrees of a quality. Kant is concerned with both of these in order to show how mathematical form can be applied to physical theory and thence to experience.
