Sunday, May 18, 2008

Kant's argument on Metaphysics

He believe that metaphysical cognition must consist obly apriori judgment.

According to the standford encyclopedia of philosophy, "one of Kant's main complaints is that metaphysicians seek to deduce a priori synthetic knowledge simply from the unschematized (pure) concepts of the understanding. The effort to acquire metaphysical knowledge through concepts alone, however, is doomed to fail, according to Kant, because (in its simplest formulation) “concepts without intuitions are empty”"

2 comments:

Medrano Walter said...

i think that this is wrong because knowledge can be acquired just by sight. because if u can see something then you can say yes it true where as if u dont u cant really its true its just word of mouth

Ally Jiang said...

i agree with you too!
i simply think knowledge is depending on observation!