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Kant's Copernican Revolution

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Cant Copernican Revolution Is the Solution to a Problem

Alil am: Can you pull this together to explain what cant copernical revolution is? Let's give it a go. So imen ts always the copernican revolution is the solution to a problem. If we're responsible for the nature of the world, if the world in some sense depends on us, then it starts to be less puzzling how we could know about world without investigating it. The analogy with copernicus is really important and appropriate here - pre copernican astronomy assumed that you were fixed. And when you looked up in the sky and you saw the planets moving,. What you saw was the real movement of the planets. In ye, i take this copern

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