PHIL343 Study Guide - Critique Of Pure Reason, Euclidean Geometry, Deontological Ethics

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He suggests that we will test the hypothesis that in some respect the objects of cognition must conform to our mode of cognition a priori. Because it cannot be proven empirically with respect to particular matters of fact, he must test it against the whole range of possible experience. In the theoretical philosophy, by experience kant means empirical knowledge. Empirical knowledge is possible only because our very mode of cognition involves universal and necessary structures that we structure experience a priori, and its that structuring that makes empirical knowledge at all possible. The next issue for kant will be the issue of moral experience. What are the a priori conditions for moral experience, making a distinction between what we want to do and what we ought to do. On both accounts, kant believes as indisputable that we have such experience ie empirical knowledge and moral experience. Hume raises the question of the validity of the principle of causality.