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Synthetic A Priori Explained
- Kant's synthetic a priori claims we can know substantive truths (like causality) prior to experience.
- This resolves Humean skepticism by making certain necessary world-structures knowable without empirical proof.
Limit On Knowledge Enables Certainty
- Kant distinguishes things-as-appearances from things-in-themselves to secure knowledge about appearances.
- That split lets Kant claim certainty within limits while denying access to ultimate reality.
Subjectivity And The Importance Of Limits
- Kant centers knowledge in the individual subject and in universal conditions of possible experience.
- Knowing your limits is essential; exceeding them leads to contradictions and no knowledge.