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Kant and Natural Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The title of this article might quite well be given the more hackneyed form, Has Kant answered Hume? Much of the discussion pertains to this latter question, but as the aim is also to emphasize some points concerned with Kant himself a deviation in title may be permissible.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1944

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page 216 note 1 E.g. Watson, : Philosophy of |Kant Explained, pp. 5859Google Scholar. See also Green, T. H.: Works, II, p. 61Google Scholar.

page 216 note 2 Watson is being quoted.

page 217 note 1 It might be noted in passing that Descartes has the very same problem: it. appears in connection with sense-experience and its status as knowledge. He has to make use of the Deity to justify the synthesis of sense-qualities with extension or else sense-experience never is knowledge at all. Which alternative is the view of Descartes is not very clear. Kant's variation on Descartes' theme is interesting.

page 220 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason: Introd. VI.

page 220 note 2 Treatise of Human Nature, Bk. I, Part III, Sect. i.

page 221 note 1 Enquiry, Sect, iv. Part i. cf. Treatise, Bk. I, Part III, Sect, ii and iii, I which is not in the formulation of the problem fundamentally different from the Enquiry.

page 222 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason: Introd. VI n.

page 224 note 1 Broad, : Scientific Thought, pp. 171 fGoogle Scholar.

page 225 note 1 Scientific Thought, p. 176.

page 226 note 1 Treatise, Bk. I, Part I, Sect. vii. But the point is fundamental to his view of space.

page 227 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason: Analytic of Principles, Ch. II, Sect. iii.

page 228 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason: Analytic of Conceptions, Ch. II, Sect, ii, 22Google Scholar.

page 228 note 2 Ibid., or remarks on the three Analogies, following on Third Analogy.

page 229 note 1 Kant, 's Metaphysic of Experience, II, p. 283Google Scholar.

page 229 note 2 Commentary on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, pp. 364–65.

page 230 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason: System of the Principles of the Pure Understanding, Ch. II, Sect. iiiGoogle Scholar.

page 230 note 2 Ibid.

page 231 note 1 The Postulates of Empirical Thought. (Just before the Refutation of Idealism.)