PHILOS 14 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: East Los Angeles College
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Kant"s philosophy provides a kind of response to hume"s account of causation. Kant- the basic idea is hume is simply wrong in that our idea of necessary. There cannot be a reductive account of the force of the imagination. Our experience does exhibit a kind of necessity, that we simply do a priori belief in. This kind of belief could not even occur, conjoined appearances couldn"t occur in certain patterns without which our experience of causally interacting objects could take place. what is event is necessarily conjoined with another event. Argues that hume gives an interesting account of how expectations come about. But to acquire kinds of causal knowledge, we must assume our mind combines. What hume thought he could explain as a merely subjective necessity, kant. Hume could not give an account of the necessity involved in necessary connection. Our mind must be structured in such a way that these conjunctions can be happy,
