Sunday, May 18, 2008

Kant's concept on how Mathematic is a priori!

According to Kant, "all mathematical cognition has this peculiarity: it must first exhibit its concept in intuition, and do so a priori, in an intuition that is not empirical but pure."

I think i disagree with Kant, I believe that math is not A Pirori which means that knowledge that is independent of observation. If math is A Pirori than that much mean that math is inate!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

thats an interesting point that you bring up and i think i may agree with you, i never thought of an alternative like that to what he explains about math, but i think i may agree with you too

Liz Meza (Philosophy) said...

i agree with you on how mathamatic can't not be a pirori because if it's a pirori then that means that a baby would be able to do math, it's simply not possible.

Ally Jiang said...

thanks!