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- From: luden@lehigh.edu (Dean E. Nelson)
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- Subject: Re: Structure of Possible Perception
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- Date: 24 Jul 92 15:26:23 GMT
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- In article <76488@ut-emx.uucp> dwilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (dwilson) writes:
- >From: dwilson@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (dwilson)
- >Subject: Structure of Possible Perception
- >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:
- >>
- >>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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- Perhaps we should ask Rodrigo if he meant epistemological necessity or
- logical necessity.
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- Dean Nelson den0@lehigh.edu
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