Saturday, May 17, 2008
Kant And Math
Kant argues that mathematics and the principles of science contain synthetic a prior knowledge. Math is a priori because it is a necessary and universal truth we know independent of experience, and it is synthetic because the concept of the results of the problem. Is not contained in the concept of the problem itself. Kant argues that the same is true for scientific principles such as, “for every action there is an equal an opposite reaction.
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i do not believe this is true for science, because there are always exceptions to the rule and if we change the variable of certain things things can change in an instance. In sceince there's alot of things we do not know prehand, so tha is why we discover new things.
I agree with Chris alonzo there is always a change of the variable. i know math is necessary but is not the universal truth. We could always prove something different.Nothing in these world is a definite, everything changes, so can the results opf math could change,
I do not agree with the two of you. Math stays the same, it does not really change. You could find problems in different methods but it wont change.
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