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In his first work entitled “Thoughts Concerning the True Measure of Vital Forces” Kant made an attempt to solve one of the most famous disputes of 17th-century philosophy. Though Kant’s solution is incorrect, it shows the way the philosopher usually solved philosophical problems. In his later works, written during the critical period, Kant came back to the problems he dealt with in his first essay,...
Kant quite often refers to analogy though without really developing the theoretical aspects of the matter itself. Even when introducing in Critique of Pure Reason (“CPR”) an apparently clear distinction between analogy in philosophy and analogy in mathematics he was so succinct that there remain doubts as to whether the distinction is based on the criterion of fields wherein analogy might be applied...
This article is an attempt at a description in support of “The Critique of Pure Reason” – Kantian conception of finite cognition and its conditions. In reference to cognition, the fundamental question set by Kant concerned the conditions of its possibility. The formulation of conditions of every possible cognition as the cognition finite in its nature is analyzed as the cognition which possesses two...
This article is an attempt at a description in support of “The Critique of Pure Reason” – Kantian conception of finite cognition and its conditions. In reference to cognition, the fundamental question set by Kant concerned the conditions of its possibility. The formulation of conditions of every possible cognition as the cognition finite in its nature is analyzed as the cognition which possesses two...
Kant’s attitude towards Newton is ambiguous though he owes much to him. Although Newton’s physics is a paradigm of science for Kant, he is fully aware that few appearances occur accurately according to the way described by mechanics. When he ties the principles of his philosophy with Newton’s mechanics, Kant makes a mistake, for due to the development of knowledge it began losing its absolute position...
The article is an attempt to present different interpretations of transcendentalism of Immanuel Kant. The problem of transcendentalism is placed in a historical perspective, because it seems to be the only correct way for the proper recognition of the essence of Kant's thought. The article focuses on the analysis presented in two Polish interpretations of transcendentalism, one of which has been presented...
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