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- Subject: Structure of Possible Perception
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 03:25:51 GMT
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- In article <RV.92Jul23001550@cslab8a.cs.brown.edu> rv@cs.brown.edu (rodrigo vanegas) writes:
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- >Much of Kant's theory rests on the notion that there is a class of
- >truths which are both "a priori" and "synthetic". Are these truths
- >"necessary" or "contingent"?
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- Necessary. They include our ideas about space, time and causality, and
- so are synthetic (ie, having to do with the world) rather than analytic
- tautologies ("All bachelors are unmarried", that sort of shit), but
- they have the same epistemological stature as analytic statements
- because they can never be contradicted by experience. Just as you will
- never meet an unmarried bachelor, you will never observe an uncaused
- event, an object that does not have spatial coordinates or an event
- not in time. According to Kant.
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