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PHL 301 1st Edition Lecture 30Outline of Last Lecture I.Questions about King MilindaII.Absent selfIII.BuddhagosaOutline of Current LectureI.Kant’s Copernican RevolutionII.Transcendental ArgumentIII.Noumena and PhenomenaIV.Synthetic A Priori truthsV.CategoriesCurrent LectureKant called his work another Copernican Revolution. Just as Copernicus theorized that the earth revolved around the sun rather than the sun revolving around the earth, Kant theorizes that instead of our concepts revolving around objects, as realists think, objects revolve around our concepts. In this view, we construct the objects, which explains synthetic a priori truths. He contends that experience can’t give us universality or necessity. The source is within us, but it is reason, not habit.This view makes the mind no longer passive. Kant’s Transcendental Argument states that if Q is necessary for the possibility of P, then “P, therefore Q” is valid. This creates limits on knowledge: we only know a priori truths based on what we put there, meaning that there could be other things that we do not know at all, or noumena, as Kant dubs them. His Laws of the Understanding are that space and time are a priori forms of sensibility because for a person to experience something, it has to exist in space andtime.Kant creates a distinction between phenomena, or objects of experience, and noumena, things in themselves. Phenomena are objects as we perceive them, to which categories apply. They are a priori.Noumena, alternatively, are independent of the mind. Categories do not apply, and they are not a priori. We cannot know noumena and cannot even officially say that they exist.Kant claims that there are innate ideas and synthetic a priori truths, but they apply only within the realm of experience. Kant’s synthetic a priori judgments, or Principles of Pure Understanding include mathematics. The world consists of objects that have properties and stand in relation to one another, according to Kant. Every event has a cause, and everything relates to everything else. These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Kant has very different categories, or basic concepts of understanding, than does Aristotle: modality, quantity, quality, and relation. Any judgment we make about the world has these categories. Modality includes possibility, existence, and necessity. Quantity includes unity, plurality, and totality. Quality categories are reality, negation, and limitation. Relation categories are inherence and subsistence, causality and dependence, and


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