PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: A Priori And A Posteriori, Immanuel Kant
9 May 2018
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Lecture 41
1. Immanuel Kant Rationalist, Nativist.
a. Kant’s rationalism relied heavily on both sensory experience and
innate faculties.
b. Causal Relationships.
i. Kant set out to prove Hume’s analysis of the concept of causation wrong
1. Kant attempted to demonstrate that some truths were certain and were
not based on subjective experience alone.
2. Kant agreed with Hume that nothing in experience proves causation
and yet we are convinced of its existence.
a. Kant’s explanation was that there is an a priori category of
thought, which accounts for our tendency to structure the world in
terms of cause and effect.
ii. Kant did not propose specific innate ideas, but proposed
innate categories of thought that organized all sensory
experience. Nativist.
iii. Kant proposed that the mind must add something to
sensory data (experience) before knowledge can be
attained.
1. Priori (innate, before experience) categories of thought, are innate
attributes of the mind that Kant postulated to explain subjective
experiences we have that cannot be explained in terms of sensory
experience alone for example, the experiences of time, causality, and
space.
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