Essay On Empiricism

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Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant wanted to bring together empiricist and rationalist. Empiricism is the theory the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Rationalism is the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge. Empiricists tried to understand Kant’s epistemological theory through reason. In the field of epistemology no body surpasses philosopher Immanuel Kant, even in modern philosophy nobody has come close to further explaining his views. His viewpoint affects most every other kind of philosophy. The empiricists tried to begin understanding epistemology through knowing and understanding the external world, Kant believed that it was the human that creates or imposes itself on the external world when pertaining to certain things and knowledge. Where Descartes understood the relationship between the mind and the world and how we process information. Kant thought this interaction was impossible, he went on to expose the logical error Descartes was never able to fully appreciate, in particular that no matter where or what is happening to a person at any given time that same person cannot say that what is happening is really existing . The link between the person and the unknown was never really made substantial and therefore everything would have to be questioned.

The most important thing about to epistemology is the distinction between analytic judgments and synthetic judgments. Analytical judgments are based on the law of non-contradiction. This knowledge is a priori which knowledge that is independent upon experience is,. On the other hand, synthetic judgments provide us with new knowledge of...

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...ty that there is an actual causal relationship between the noumena and the phenomena? Maybe there is no connection but we might never get to the answer to this seeing as Kant is long gone.

What can we know for sure? for Kant, the only knowledge available to the subject is the phenomenon. Which can be divided into empiricism and rationalism? If the phenomena Is created by the mind I’m not sure we can be so reliant on it.
In conclusion Kant made some really bold observations if we all have a mind and use this mind to create thought ideas and real world application then is anything outside of my head real? Or have created it through my mind’s eye he further explains illusions or thing we have never seen happen as phenomena and just further makes his argument more valid we create dreams why can’t we create the life around us. One thing we know is we can never be sure

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