Synthetic A Priori Judgements in Metaphysics and the Copernican Revolution

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 …

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Three Orders of Knowing: Imagination, Ratio or Reason, Intuition

The Three Orders of Knowing

• According to Spinoza, the essence of mind consists in having ideas or intelligence.
• Hence, Spinoza sub-ordinates will, emotions, feelings to intellectual achievements.
• But even knowledge is found in ascending order of imagination, reason and intuition according to the degree of the adequate ideas.

Imagination

• First, there is the stage of imagination in which we view things separately and individually.
• It is essentially pictorial thinking in which we inven…

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