hixidom wrote:Quote:Quote:Quote:There can be no such thing as synthetic-a priori knowledge for instance...it´s just impossible. If knowledge is synthetic it just can not be a-priori.
I disagree. What Kant was trying to show was that some of the most predominant structures of reality originate within the mind.
So they cannot reveal knowledge of the outside world..wich is synthetic.
I would say there is no outside world that we can know of.
Well, synthetic knowledge is empirical knowledge. It is ofcourse possible that all empirical knowledge stams from another part of the mind instead of an outside world.
The point is.... empirical knowledge can not be intuitive knowledge at the same time, unless you would argue that synthetic a-priori knowledge isn´t knowledge but a primary response of the brain on impulses, that neither falls into the category of knowledge or reason.
I personally believe that this is indeed the way knowledge originates, but then we would have to admit that the difference between empirical knowledge and knowledge based on logical reasoning occurs at some later stage of the mental growth proces, and that basically all of our classic ideas about knowledge that categorize knowledge into either sensory data or logical facts, are wrong.