Synthetic A Priori Judgements in Metaphysics and the Copernican Revolution: Criticism

Synthetic A priori Judgements in Metaphysics

• Kant was most anxious to show that there are a priori elements in knowledge which are not derived from experience and yet help in increasing the empirical knowledge.
• This is the real meaning of the synthetic judgements a priori that is according to Kant, there are elects which increase our knowledge without being empirical.
• Or, they are universal necessary cognitions (without being analytic).
• However, the central point of Kant lies that a priori elements serv…

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