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The Critical Philosophy & Forms of Sensibility Kant

The Critical Philosophy

• Kant did not reject empiricism and rationalism out rightly.
• He tried to retain all that appeared valuable in them.
• His statement was that both, empiricism and rationalism are right in what they affirm, but wrong in what they deny.
• Empiricism affirms that knowledge is constituted by experience.
• On the other hand, rationalism affirms that knowledge is constituted by innate or a-priori ideas.
• Empiricism is right in as much as it points out that propositions of facts can be derived fro…

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Theory of Knowledge (Truth of Reason and Truth of Facts)

Theory of Knowledge (Truth of reason and truth of facts)

• There are two kinds of truth involved in knowledge, namely; necessary and contingent truth.
• Necessary truths follow with logical and mathematical certainty, as a result, their opposite is inconceivable.
• They are also self-evident, self-consistent and based on the law of causation.
• They are also eternal and unchangeable in nature. Even the will of God cannot alter them.
• Such truths, no doubt may be complex but they c…

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