[MD] Critique of Pure Reason (for Bodvar)

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"Kant argued that there are synthetic a priori truths. 
He reasoned that statements such as those found in 
geometry and Newtonian physics are synthetic a priori 
knowledge and wanted to establish how this could be 
possible. This also led him to inquire whether it 
could be possible to ground synthetic a priori knowledge 
for a study of metaphysics, because most of the principles 
of metaphysics from Plato through to Kant's immediate 
predecessors made assertions about the world or about 
God or about the soul that were not self-evident but 
which could not be derived from empirical observation 
(B18-24). This led to his most influential contribution 
to metaphysics: the abandonment of the quest to try to 
know the world as it is "in itself" independent of our 
sense experience."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_Pure_Reason




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