Monday, May 12, 2008

Kant: Synthetic Knowledge

Synthetic apriori knowledge is the basis of all our knowledge about the natural world. Such as: Math, Science, and Metaphysics.
Kant argues that this solves the rationalists problem on skeptism about the external world. VS. The empiricists which are skeptics about the patterns of nature. Apostiori knowledge is a basis on abservation.

VS- Rationalism: Agrees about apriori knowledge and unlike synthetic it is not informative.
VS- Impiricists: THey agree with synthetic knowledge.

I agree with Kant when he describes that synthetic apriori knowledge is the basis of all knowledge about the natural world. Because Math, science and the metaphysics are all problems of logic that can be applied to the way people think. Science can be used to figure out different scientific events that have happened in the world to prove their thoughts/ideas.

1 comment:

Danielle said...

Math, Science and Metaphysics is an apriori knowledge. All 3 of these subjects, hold tons and tons of information and explanations about the world around us.