PHI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Logical Truth
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Didn"t publish anything for ten years; at the end of that decade, published a critique of. Pure reason: this was his attempt to understand the debate between rationalists and empiricists, as well as to provide an answer to the empiricists. Essentially, kant"s response was to provide a synthesis of the rationalist and empiricist ideas. Judgment: when you take something that could be true or false and judge it to be true or judge it to be false. Judgments are evaluations that we make judgements to be one way or the other. Analytic judgments and synthetic judgments: kant says some judgments are analytic. They add nothing to the content of the cognition: other judgments are synthetic. They add something to the content of the cognition: when kant talks about this, he usually borrows some language from grammar. When you put the subject and the predicate together in a sentence, you have the content of a judgment.
