#247 - Kant's Influence on Biology: A Dialogue with Andrew Jones
Converging Dialogues
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The Misunderstanding of Hume
Kant thought that Hume had never thought that mathematical truths or geometrical truths were open to this kind of skeptical argument. My approach in the book is to show that Hume actually did subject them to the skepticism. But it was more that something like a mathematical, like two plus two is for mathematical equation. It's true by kind of the demonstration of the act of doing the sum. You don't need to do it again afterwards.
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