PHILOSOPHY - Kant: On Metaphysical Knowledge [HD]

Kant famously claims that we have synthetic apriori knowledge. Indeed, this claim is absolutely central to all of his philosophy. But what is synthetic apriori knowledge? Scott Edgar helpfully breaks-down this category of knowledge by first walking through Kant's distinction between empirical and apriori knowledge and then his distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments. The interaction between these distinctions is then illustrated with numerous examples, making it clear why Kant, unlike Hume, thought that there is knowledge that is both apriori and synthetic and that this is the type of knowledge philosophers seek.
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  • @GainingUnderstanding
    @GainingUnderstanding8 жыл бұрын

    This video did a great job of explaining the complexities of Kant. He's a difficult read.

  • @borussell4455

    @borussell4455

    7 жыл бұрын

    It was a wonderful explanation . I want to hear more from yhis guy.

  • @sirdichwood-pushwhole9248

    @sirdichwood-pushwhole9248

    5 жыл бұрын

    Very stodgy reading indeed

  • @davekushner5340

    @davekushner5340

    3 жыл бұрын

    He is definitely difficult to read. I can pick up someone's work and typically break it down after contemplative study, but with Kant, I need to read, reread, contemplate, get input, and read again. Then it's still not a guarantee that I'm following accurately.

  • @vincentbarraza1115

    @vincentbarraza1115

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree. My brain cells were diluted just reading a 10 minute Kant.

  • @ryanh.7174
    @ryanh.71744 жыл бұрын

    This description is excellent! I've been struggling with understanding this concept for the past 4 hours. Specifically, Kant's concept in contrast to Hume's. I wish I would have watched this video 4 hours ago.

  • @luftim

    @luftim

    2 жыл бұрын

    i have been struggling for the past 4 weeks to understand what he means, and how it makes sense

  • @KingCrimson250
    @KingCrimson2506 жыл бұрын

    Yo this video is synthethicc

  • @plasmaballin

    @plasmaballin

    6 жыл бұрын

    kingcrimson250 That was a very bad pun.

  • @amel1832

    @amel1832

    5 жыл бұрын

    i appreciate this

  • @wlk_live

    @wlk_live

    4 жыл бұрын

    good meme

  • @thorcook

    @thorcook

    3 жыл бұрын

    mmm... yes, quite ampliative

  • @HynekTuleja

    @HynekTuleja

    2 жыл бұрын

    But only a posteriori

  • @ili1017
    @ili10177 жыл бұрын

    this is a great video, very concise and to the point- makes it easy to understand Kant's transcendental idealism

  • @IhsanMujdeci
    @IhsanMujdeci5 жыл бұрын

    Wow this channel is perfect. Just what I was looking for. Thanks for the graphics and explanation of every technical term.

  • @kavinmanickam4765
    @kavinmanickam47653 жыл бұрын

    You’re a lifesaver man, I’ve been stuck reading Kant for the last 2 hours trying to understand him and this is what really got me to understand it.

  • @nouen6088

    @nouen6088

    2 жыл бұрын

    2 hours?! Damn, you're lucky.

  • @kingdomkeata
    @kingdomkeata5 жыл бұрын

    I haven't gotten this far into Kant yet but I actually understood this and have a greater understanding of what we have covered. Very well done, love Kant, TFS!

  • @josephmarcotte328
    @josephmarcotte3287 жыл бұрын

    I reduced the settings speed down to a lower level in this video so I can hear it at a slower rate to absorb the information better and allowing me time in between to think and compare to what is being said.

  • @personinaroom

    @personinaroom

    4 жыл бұрын

    I didn't slow the video down because I didn't slow the video down.

  • @MrGodofcar

    @MrGodofcar

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@personinaroom It makes sense because it makes sense.

  • @meetaasadnan7685

    @meetaasadnan7685

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought I was the only one

  • @syed9576

    @syed9576

    3 жыл бұрын

    I did that and the guy sounds high or drunk now

  • @videobehera7065

    @videobehera7065

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks ....

  • @faridabdulov41
    @faridabdulov413 жыл бұрын

    I've just discovered your channel and I'm more than happy! Great job!

  • @zubairahmadshahi7986
    @zubairahmadshahi79865 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Sir, I hope everyone enjoyed the vedio , it is one of the most easiest look to understand Kant , I got 80% by the grace of ur this act , thank you once again... 👌👌👌👌

  • @whitneysmith895
    @whitneysmith8952 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic work breaking this down. Please do more of these!

  • @whitneysmith895
    @whitneysmith8952 жыл бұрын

    And hats off to Scott Edgars, the people who put this whole series together, and whoever paid for it. Really helps dig through the inscrutable inscrutability of dense philosophy.

  • @jaaniyo
    @jaaniyo Жыл бұрын

    One of the best explanations on Kant's metaphysics. Thank you for this explanation

  • @NartAbaza
    @NartAbaza7 жыл бұрын

    The last minute is gold! Thanks a lot! All other lectures make this distinction seem to be pointless.

  • @rh001YT
    @rh001YT7 жыл бұрын

    My 2 cents: This video, while good, is presented in isolation from all that Kant was saying in the Critique. With his Critique, Kant was objecting to Hume and Locke, whose explanations resulted in a totally constructivist world view, thus a totally subjective world view. Kant agreed that we see a constructed world view, but claimed we don't actively construct it, rather the brain/mind is set up in such a way - with filters and concepts built in - that what we see (world picture) is fated. Then, if there is a way to get beyond that fate, the way might be to find apriori synthetic stuff that helps reveal how the mind/brain bases it's construction of our world view. Then maybe we get closer to knowing things in themselves rather than just their attributes. Maybe apriori synthetics offer shortcuts to certainties. I think Kant would agree that any way we may get at certainties may not reveal ultimate reality, or it might, we won't know for sure, but merely cutting to the chase may be very useful in sorting things out. Apriori synthetic may be the most reliable knowledge that we can bank on.

  • @KeskinCookin
    @KeskinCookin4 жыл бұрын

    So far the best video I’ve watched on this topic. Thank you professor! Now, back to making cooking videos.

  • @kissthekrogan4256
    @kissthekrogan42566 жыл бұрын

    Awesome. Thank-you. The best explanation of a priori knowledge I have seen.

  • @mollygrahamguelph
    @mollygrahamguelph7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video, it was exactly what I was looking for.

  • @aravaya
    @aravaya6 жыл бұрын

    beautifully described, it's such a complex topic to read through the text. Thanks :)

  • @kendylaishram8053
    @kendylaishram80535 жыл бұрын

    best explanation on the topic that i had ever heard. thank you

  • @matterhornenvironmental378
    @matterhornenvironmental3786 ай бұрын

    This video is great! Wonderful explanation. Thanks for publishing it.

  • @poepzwerver15
    @poepzwerver159 жыл бұрын

    Thank you man! Very easy to grasp. Good job!

  • @gokcenciflikchamberlin3093
    @gokcenciflikchamberlin30938 жыл бұрын

    that's really was helpful. Thank you so much!

  • @matthewa6881
    @matthewa68817 жыл бұрын

    I'm of the impression that Frege didn't agree here and subsequently nor did Quine? However, I still think Kant is key to understanding the nature of knowledge in any deep way. Thanks.

  • @abhishekdas66
    @abhishekdas664 жыл бұрын

    Very lucid and comprehensible.Thanks Prof!

  • @MESvenssonpost
    @MESvenssonpost5 жыл бұрын

    Best explanation of Kant I've seen (because it is understandable and confirms what I thought Kant meant...)

  • @jwu1950

    @jwu1950

    4 жыл бұрын

    Kant is confused. There is no such thing as knowledge by humans in the metaphysical reality. Metaphysics is by definition unobservable and unknowable by humans. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @pengefikseret
    @pengefikseret8 жыл бұрын

    Thats great! Really helpful!! Willt you will you also do something about the transcendental analytic as well? ;) It would be really helpful, and Kant is so important to understand, for anyone wanting to study philosophy

  • @FarlessBlue
    @FarlessBlue Жыл бұрын

    This video is just amazing. Thank you.

  • @fredrikj8491
    @fredrikj84918 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: for non-flat geometries there can be triangles which angles sum up to more or less than 180 degrees.

  • @loldoctor

    @loldoctor

    7 жыл бұрын

    Kant was actually specifically using Euclid's definition, which strengthened his argument. Not only does he have his own logic but he's also essentially framing it as "either this universally held truth is wrong or I'm right." Kant was a badass.

  • @loldoctor

    @loldoctor

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sure, but that doesn't make it any less badass at the time.

  • @heyassmanx

    @heyassmanx

    7 жыл бұрын

    @Stanko Glavinic4 Could be wrong but think you're looking at it in the wrong light - Falsifiability mainly pertains to science and observation i.e. empirical knowledge. But law of excluded middle still holds, I mean you can still prove that it's either this and not that or that and not this can't you..? Either way, 'ill-founded' is a poor choice of words for such a scrupulous cat as Kant.

  • @heyassmanx

    @heyassmanx

    7 жыл бұрын

    My aren't we touchy. Seems the way you are using empirical, everything and anything is empirical - guess analytic truths are observations in that broad sense too. The shortest distance between two beings a straight line can never be superseded by future observation. There are some axioms that must be accepted for any progress to be made in any direction. The message I got from your choice of words was: 'pretentious dork pontificating', so yeah, suppose your message was clear.

  • @heyassmanx

    @heyassmanx

    7 жыл бұрын

    No, that wasn't being used to support any argument, that was just a sidebar observation -- Now, seems you are using 'axiom' too broadly just like 'empirical'. A priori/logical axioms are not the same as scientific axioms. And even then so, those original axioms still need to be accepted in order to lay the groundwork for their future overturning.

  • @MythOfStudleySnape32
    @MythOfStudleySnape324 жыл бұрын

    Clear and simple! Thank you!

  • @xyoungdipsetx
    @xyoungdipsetx6 жыл бұрын

    such a great video and helped understand kants philosophy

  • @sinusbuds6825
    @sinusbuds68254 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully done.

  • @Gamster420
    @Gamster4207 жыл бұрын

    Really good explanation of a very complicated idea.

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette58432 ай бұрын

    " I am reminded of a great German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He is a specimen of those people who are absolutely in the mind. He lived according to mind so totally that people used to set their watches, whenever they saw Immanuel Kant going to the university. Never - it may rain, it may rain fire, it may rain cats and dogs, it may be utterly cold, snow falling … Whatever the situation, Kant will reach the university at exactly the same time all the year round, even on holidays. Such a fixed, almost mechanical … He would go on holiday at exactly the same time, remain in the university library, which was specially kept open for him, because otherwise what would he do there the whole day? And he was a very prominent, well-known philosopher, and he would leave the university at exactly the same time every day. One day it happened … It had rained and there was too much mud on the way - one of his shoes got stuck in the mud. He did not stop to take the shoe out because that would make him reach the university a few seconds later, and that was impossible. He left the shoe there. He just arrived with one shoe. The students could not believe it. Somebody asked, “What happened to the other shoe?” He said, “It got stuck in the mud, so I left it there, knowing perfectly well nobody is going to steal one shoe. When I return in the evening, then I will pick it up. But I could not have been late.” A woman proposed to him: “I want to be married to you” - a beautiful young woman. Perhaps no woman has ever received such an answer, before or after Immanuel Kant. Either you say, “Yes,” or you say, “No. Excuse me.” Immanuel Kant said, “I will have to do a great deal of research.” The woman asked, “About what?” He said, “I will have to look in all the marriage manuals, all the books concerning marriage, and find out all the pros and cons - whether to marry or not to marry.” The woman could not imagine that this kind of answer had ever been given to any woman before. Even no is acceptable, even yes, although you are getting into a misery, but it is acceptable. But this kind of indifferent attitude towards the woman - he did not say a single sweet word to her. He did not say anything about her beauty, his whole concern was his mind. He had to convince his mind whether or not marriage is logically the right thing. It took him three years. It was really a long search. Day and night he was working on it, and he had found three hundred reasons against marriage and three hundred reasons for marriage. So the problem even after three years was the same. One friend suggested out of compassion, “You wasted three years on this stupid research. In three years you would have experienced all these six hundred, without any research. You should have just said yes to that woman. There was no need to do so much hard work. Three years would have given you all the pros and cons - existentially, experientially.” But Kant said, “I am in a fix. Both are equal, parallel, balanced. There is no way to choose.” The friend suggested, “Of the pros you have forgotten one thing: that whenever there is a chance, it is better to say yes and go through the experience. That is one thing more in favor of the pros. The cons cannot give you any experience, and only experience has any validity.” He understood, it was intellectually right. He immediately went to the woman’s house, knocked on her door. Her old father opened the door and said, “Young man, you are too late. You took too long in your research. My girl is married and has two children.” That was the last thing that was ever heard about his marriage. From then on no woman ever asked him, and he was not the kind of man to ask anybody. He remained unmarried."

  • @ghgh489
    @ghgh4895 жыл бұрын

    This is incredible! This is the best explanation of Kant's synthetic apriori knowledge. Thank you so much!

  • @jwu1950

    @jwu1950

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is called superstition, not knowledge. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @MrGodofcar

    @MrGodofcar

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jwu1950 Your religion is superstition.

  • @IvyTeaRN

    @IvyTeaRN

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jwu1950 no

  • @jwu1950

    @jwu1950

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@IvyTeaRN Yes, it is superstition, because metaphysics is by definition unobservable and unknowable by humans. Assumptions, speculations, and superstitious beliefs are not knowledge, period. Kant is full of shit. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @jwu1950

    @jwu1950

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrGodofcar What religion ? Jesus, Einstein, and I believed in God, we do not believe in or follow any religion, any superstition, or any political agenda. God is not a religion, and neither is Jesus, Einstein, or I. It's that simple. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @Varitikasingh
    @Varitikasingh6 жыл бұрын

    Subrb ....best way to understand kant's theory. ...so helpful...Please make some more videos on Hegal, Fichte Grotius etc

  • @ericahenriksen24
    @ericahenriksen24 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video. This wasn't very clear when my professor taught this but now I feel like I will get an A on my paper.

  • @WirelessPhilosophy

    @WirelessPhilosophy

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @fatimasoomro
    @fatimasoomro2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you These videos are excellent

  • @abdulrahmankhalifa5642
    @abdulrahmankhalifa56424 жыл бұрын

    This video is really amazing

  • @mattsigl1426
    @mattsigl14265 жыл бұрын

    Excellent summation.

  • @bon12121
    @bon121212 жыл бұрын

    This was really good. Thank you

  • @mirandaleis8576
    @mirandaleis85764 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for such an awesome video

  • @julianprado1327
    @julianprado13273 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful explanation.

  • @sanamir9886
    @sanamir98862 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful video. Thanks.

  • @3rl0y
    @3rl0y7 жыл бұрын

    I see a lot of comments saying that because a triangle always has a sum of 180 degrees at it's angles it needs to be analytic a priori knowledge. The way I see it is that analytic a priori knowledge defines something, in this case a triangle, in the most basic form necessary. For a triangle this wouldn't include saying the sum of the angles always makes 180 degrees, but saying it needs three sides touching eachother does. However, in this sense saying it always has three angles would also be synthetic a priori, because it doesn't need to be said to get the concept of 'triangle'.

  • @Rachna1
    @Rachna15 жыл бұрын

    Superb!! Thanks a lot!

  • @cfalcon8342
    @cfalcon83424 жыл бұрын

    Great, but shouldve included a few more examples/spent more time on the last portion explaining synthetic apriori

  • @keilnicholas3691
    @keilnicholas36914 жыл бұрын

    Super helpful, thanks!

  • @JunCroccifixioWayne
    @JunCroccifixioWayne6 жыл бұрын

    this was actually a very well explained video that has helped me understand the concept so much better in one go. very well made, thank you.

  • @danremenyi1179
    @danremenyi11792 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Very well done.

  • @miguelangelalonsorodriguez9220
    @miguelangelalonsorodriguez92202 жыл бұрын

    Flawlessly explained

  • @pascalmassie3906
    @pascalmassie39066 жыл бұрын

    Very well done!

  • @bruhnling33
    @bruhnling332 жыл бұрын

    I see comments assuming the converse of Kant’s claim is true; that because synthetic knowledge is ampliative, ampliative knowledge must be synthetic, the implicit assumption being that analytical knowledge can’t be ampliative. Thinkers disagreeing with Kant tend to claim that that is not true

  • @Ndo01
    @Ndo018 жыл бұрын

    Could a synthetic a priori to us just be empirical to an alien species that can intuitively sense that the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees?

  • @nimim.markomikkila1673

    @nimim.markomikkila1673

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Id Anima Yes, it could:)

  • @shmuel-k
    @shmuel-k7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @rollandcurtis874
    @rollandcurtis8742 жыл бұрын

    Well done Mr. Edgar.

  • @kyla4912
    @kyla49129 жыл бұрын

    helpful, thanks.

  • @mebaridhar4361
    @mebaridhar43617 жыл бұрын

    Thank you ,its helpful

  • @TheGerogero
    @TheGerogero9 жыл бұрын

    I don't see the fact that the angles of a triangle sum to 180° as a fact that is not contained in the definition of a triangle, "a three sided figure enclosed on a plane". Mathematical knowledge is discovered, not invented; analytic knowledge is not necessarily trivial.

  • @handlehandlehand

    @handlehandlehand

    9 жыл бұрын

    Math is the discovery of order within our universe within the means of systems that we create so it yeah

  • @handlehandlehand

    @handlehandlehand

    9 жыл бұрын

    nickj3ds so it is both created and discovered simultaneously

  • @FatehBazerbachi

    @FatehBazerbachi

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheGerogero Please see my discussion with Mysteries from beyond. great comment.

  • @TheGerogero

    @TheGerogero

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** Aren't we nonetheless dealing with an interrelation of analytic concepts? If so, I'm not sure how we could thus end up with synthetic statements.

  • @TheGerogero

    @TheGerogero

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** But aren't analytic statements precisely those which are necessary? I'm not all too familiar with Kant anyways, let alone Hume -- you're talking at a level beyond me. :P

  • @abhishekdivecha3435
    @abhishekdivecha34355 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, it was amazing :)

  • @Leylaw_
    @Leylaw_7 жыл бұрын

    Super helpful!

  • @dragonthunder6107
    @dragonthunder61074 жыл бұрын

    Can someone please clear up this confusion that i have - i am getting a feeling that synthetic apriori is just saying that there are some undiscovered intrinsic properties of an apriori judgement that were not known when creating that apriori. So since we are talking about an undiscovered property of an apriori judgement, it is still an apriori. Hence the name "synthetic apriori". But doesn't that mean that synthetic apriori is just an emperical/synthetic judgement. It is discovered through experience, so why is it still an "apriori".

  • @anthonymacconnell7179
    @anthonymacconnell71796 жыл бұрын

    0:35 what's its nature

  • @lewis72

    @lewis72

    3 жыл бұрын

    Spot the typo. too, it said *it's* not *its* .

  • @mukheshjyothula6655
    @mukheshjyothula66554 жыл бұрын

    Great Job!

  • @rhenseler1341
    @rhenseler13417 жыл бұрын

    Nice video, just a little comment. Kant's example of synthetic a priori knowledge is the mentioned example: 5+7=12. He says this is not analytic a priori: but synthetic a priori. So the example of the triangle, where the predicate says something IN ADDITION to the subject, holds for 5+7=12. Kant's reference to mathematics is, of course, very much disputed. Many would take mathematical truths as analytical truths. The point Kant wants to make against Hume's scepticism is, that knowledge is articulated within a transcendental frame of veridicality that cannot be put into question.

  • @tantarudragos
    @tantarudragos4 жыл бұрын

    To anybody who has doubts about the analytic\synthetic distinction, I highly recommend Sebastian Gardner's book "Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason". For instance, if you are not convinced that mathematical truths are synthetic, or if you think that a synthetic truth becomes an analytic one, by virtue of the expansion of definitions, you really, really should check the 3rd chapter of the book. You can find it for free online.

  • @ABHISHEK3960
    @ABHISHEK39603 жыл бұрын

    Nice explanation

  • @lucasschaedler5040
    @lucasschaedler5040 Жыл бұрын

    Great video and explanation. Still, it makes me want to lay down in a corner and cry myself out of existence.

  • @SnatchAx
    @SnatchAx8 жыл бұрын

    great video

  • @kingnevermore25
    @kingnevermore256 жыл бұрын

    So triangle is a figure with three sides which means that triangle is a priori and analytical? (If we only take 3 sides into consideration and not 180 degrees)

  • @franciskm4144
    @franciskm41444 жыл бұрын

    Good explanation

  • @km1dash6
    @km1dash64 жыл бұрын

    Are all empirical judgements are synthetic? Kripke noted that if x=y -> □x=y. When we discovered the Morning Star and the Evening Star were the same star, it means that the the two names were interchangeable as they picked out the same object. So it seems even though we discovered that empirically, any analysis of the two words would have to contain the other. Which would imply there are Empirical Analytic Truths.

  • @oarevalo21
    @oarevalo218 жыл бұрын

    What is the current state of philosophy in accepting this idea about metaphysics? It seems to me that's falling out of favor for a few reasons, but mainly because science has begun to tackle metaphysics questions like free will, the arrow of time, and existence of time itself as an irreducible property of reality, and the need for causality relations. The metaphysical idea of locality and absolute time have already been tackled and found to not hold experimentally, which means that these metaphysical ideas cannot be a priori. That raises the question if any metaphysical ideas are a priori. It's also clear to mathematicians that definitions used in mathematics are arbitrary and in fact many varieties of mathematics exist which have been found useful in physics but where the set of those a priori axioms are different. I don't think we can take Kant's claim about the necessity and universality of a priori truths seriously anymore.

  • @lloppka7080

    @lloppka7080

    7 жыл бұрын

    Please elaborate or direct those of us who can't see why we cannot take Kant's claim about the "necessity and universality of a priori truths seriously" to appropriate sources.

  • @lloppka7080

    @lloppka7080

    7 жыл бұрын

    Stanko Glavinic thanks m8

  • @dionysianapollomarx

    @dionysianapollomarx

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not much has changed really other than that Kant's metaphysics of time and moral philosophy has been thoroughly refuted by evidence in modern science in favor of Hume's. Current science has also acknowledged that some things with irreducible properties cannot be analyzed purely by their quanta, and instead would be better understood by their processes. For math, it is true that many theories make use of a priori axioms that are different when applied in physics or engineering, and that most definitions are arbitrary. I don't think that indicates Kant's metaphysics no longer holds, but rather merely requires an addendum that goes beyond simple Euclidean geometry to explain a priori judgments or even to explain if it is the case that these judgments begin to break down at a certain point in investigation.

  • @soulkiller3391

    @soulkiller3391

    3 жыл бұрын

    crucial to understand why science will never be able to disregard Kant’s metaphysic regardless how advancing it might be is because he differentiates between time/space as an empiristic observable and a transcendental one which (the latter) is only a general but necessary criteria in which the human brain (has to) categorize reality in its own mind while the former is responsible for describing what we practically experience.

  • @jeffxanders3990
    @jeffxanders39904 жыл бұрын

    So this is true, if we're expressions of Source (consciousness) and our thoughts come from who we really are. What's the alternative?

  • @jwu1950

    @jwu1950

    4 жыл бұрын

    The alternative is to believe. Jesus promised all those who believed in him may ask for anything in his name, and shall receive in the glory of God. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @lucasgriggs5685
    @lucasgriggs56858 жыл бұрын

    wow....that just changed everything

  • @FatehBazerbachi
    @FatehBazerbachi8 жыл бұрын

    I see that this is restricted to the realm of math, however, is there any other examples of synthetic a priori knowledge? I cant fathom any.

  • @FatehBazerbachi

    @FatehBazerbachi

    8 жыл бұрын

    is that the only example? I find myself thinking that every "event has its cause (event"er") is quite true by Hume's relation of ideas.

  • @FatehBazerbachi

    @FatehBazerbachi

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Mysteries From Beyond synthetic a priori, as i understand it, is a statement that yields a predicate not relating/contained in the subject of the statement (thats the synthetic part) and a prior since its not related to experience. I am trying hard to see how every substance is a subject every event has a cause could satisfy this. I feel that subject is tautologically related to substance and event is tautologically related to cause, unless i am missing something (I am a total novice so i may be missing something big here). In critique of pure reason, Kant claimed his Copernican revolution in philosophy, mainly by arguing the synthetic a priori claim, and the transcendental nature of the mind, and arguing that mind actively grasps and organizes experience. The mind is no longer a passive recipient. We could know in advance how we will experience the world tomorrow, not because we are certain the world will remain the same (it is unknowable according to Hume), but, contre Hume, we are certain our cognitive activities will continue to structure experience in its characteristic way. If an evil scientist tapes red colored contacts on our cornea, we would be certain that, tomorrow, although tomorrow is unknowable, tomorrow would still look red. This is tempting and presents an elegant escape from Hume's anarchistic consequence. I am, though, reluctant to accept Kant's premise/hypothesis. One of the examples of Synthetic a prior knowledge Kant brought up is mathematics, arithmetic, geometry and physics. in Euclidean geometry only one line can be drawn through a given point so that the line is parallel to a given line that does not contain the point. Kant's argument is that the definitions of a point, line, parallel do not include the concept of one parallel. I argue that it does, and that the concept of linearity, entailed in a line, necessitate the conclusion that only one parallel line emanates from an isolated point in a surface. It is true by "relations of ideas", by definition, and thus we cannot escape Hume.

  • @FatehBazerbachi

    @FatehBazerbachi

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Mysteries From Beyond I appreciate your insight and examples btw.

  • @teacherdeedeesworld
    @teacherdeedeesworld4 жыл бұрын

    thank you

  • @hervepatrickmbeleckhervepa7691
    @hervepatrickmbeleckhervepa76914 жыл бұрын

    Very good.

  • @schlussel10
    @schlussel105 ай бұрын

    Very cool video

  • @raffae4303
    @raffae43036 жыл бұрын

    I'm a bit confused. In the statement "The interior angles of a triangle add up to 180°" isn't the subject the interior angles of the triangle and not the triangle itself? The idea that the interior angles of a triangle are equal to 180° is contained in the concept of the interior angles of a triangle, so if "the interior angles of a triangle" is the subject and not "a triangle" isn't the statement analytic a priori? I'm not sure if this makes sense or its just a bit of logical/linguistic sleight of hand. Great video other than this btw.

  • @jamesbedard9047
    @jamesbedard90474 жыл бұрын

    Meta physics is like flowing water. When we as individuals start to experience the flowing water effect, and also allowing the effects to effect us, in the mind, this is the way to enlightenment.

  • @jellovendigar
    @jellovendigar3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how the inductive-deductive reasoning concepts relate to this framework

  • @evanoliver7207
    @evanoliver72074 жыл бұрын

    Only the individuals experience in meditation can determine the value of metaphysics. Kant was a master of words and math, so we got a triple wammy.

  • @maestroanth
    @maestroanth5 жыл бұрын

    Is there another example of synthetic a priori knowledge? Not all triangles add up to 180 degrees such as those on a sphere add up to something greater. And I don't see how you can figure this out by non-empirical means.

  • @SuperGGLOL

    @SuperGGLOL

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ha ha! Clever. Was that intentional? So not all triangles add up to 180 degrees. What you say is a synthetic a prior knowledge in itself. It doesn't negate the truth that 'all triangles add up to 180 degrees' either. You missed the important key meaning that a 'synthetic a prior knowledge' is not TRUE by definition, so it implies that it is subjective knowledge in contrast to empirical meaning that which is observed and knowledge from the physical senses.

  • @scoogsy
    @scoogsy4 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful video. Very interesting. As for the triangle having 180 degrees being synthetic apriore, because the definition of a triangle (a three sided figure) doesn’t inherently contain that its internal angles will sun to 180 degrees. Isn’t this just a definitional issue. Aren’t we saying that if all triangles angles equal 180 degrees that we therefore have that as part of its definition? If it were not part of its definition, then we can have triangles that do not contain 180 degrees worth of angles. Or am I missing something.

  • @unh0lys0da16
    @unh0lys0da166 жыл бұрын

    What if the definition of the triangle was incomplete?

  • @alejandracerecedo3468
    @alejandracerecedo34688 жыл бұрын

    awesome!!!

  • @robertwilsoniii2048
    @robertwilsoniii20487 жыл бұрын

    The theory of synthetic a priory knowledge is brilliant. I think he's right about this.

  • @lowereastsideastrologist7769

    @lowereastsideastrologist7769

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's garbage. How impressive is it to 'reason' which comes next, 21, 3, 6, 36, x, when you never (empirically) invented the set in the first place. The beauty of empiricism is that people are free to create systems, even abstract objects, as physicists (atoms, superstrings, ect) and mathematicians (circles, infinity) do, for which they reason upon.

  • @plasmaballin

    @plasmaballin

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's not as brilliant as you think. Kant uses math to try to show examples of synthetic a priori knowledge, but all of his mathematical arguments can be shown to be incorrect with actual math. His first example is 7+5=12. He claims this must be synthetic because he doesn't think it's true by definition. However, Kant has failed to actually analyze the definitions of the terms. Seven is defined as sssssss0 (where s means "the successor of") in Peano arithmetic, five is sssss0, and twelve is ssssssssssss0. Addition has a recursive definition in terms of the successorship function. Using the axioms of Peano arithmetic (which just define what successorship, natural numbers, and "equals" mean), it can be proven by definition that 7+5=12. Thus, 7+5=12 is analytic knowledge, not synthetic. Kant's other example, that the sum of the angles of a triangle add up to 180°, is not a priori knowledge at all. In fact, it's not even correct. There are places in our Universe where spacetime is warped, meaning that the angles don't add up to 180°. That's because our Universe, while close to being Euclidean, is not actually Euclidean. The correct a priori statement to make would be "All triangles IN A EUCLIDEAN SPACE have angles that add up to 180°." However, this is an alytic judgement, since it can be proven from the axioms of Euclidean geomery that the angles add up to 180°, and the axioms of Euclidean geometry are part of the definition of a Euclidean space.

  • @lowereastsideastrologist7769

    @lowereastsideastrologist7769

    6 жыл бұрын

    Whenever you try to check a rationalist by reminding them Kant was wrong, you are bound to get the notorious ad hoc defense. The fact is, that Kant believed in our intuition of space and time was how he believed the world really was - but with the empirical overthrow of Euclidean geometry, he was proved to be completely wrong.

  • @nickolasgaspar9660

    @nickolasgaspar9660

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes its pure bovine manure. A priori knowledge is a false assumption....a dishonest medium to run away with his idealistic ideas. All roses are roses is a statement based on the logical absolute of identity. Logical rules, principles and criteria are based and verified EMPIRICALLY. This logical conclusion is what the empirical world teaches us about the world. if we lived in a world that the dna structure of flowers cells were constantly changing....this "truth by definition" would be...true. now on math. In order to understand the relations of mathematical symbols, you first need to train your self with...... your fingers(remember our first years in school). So this "a priori knowledge" is nothing more than mental representations of relations of physical things in the empirical world. Now some points about the abuse of the word "truth". The math example the "claim" 7+5=12, is true because we follow the "rules" of math and the value of the symbols that we have given to them. There isn't any metaphysical knowledge produced since the relations of the symbols are included and visible in the formula. Yes we don't need to perform a real life experiment in order to define the truth value of the "claim" since the mathematical equation is designed on the same empirical rules with those used when adding physical things in the real world. Mathematics was developed as a descriptive tool for nature's empirical regularities....not the other way around.

  • @Portekberm

    @Portekberm

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@plasmaballin interesting, but are you using the law of non contradiction to establish that? And are there any people (minds) in a non euclidean space? thanks

  • @moesa2000
    @moesa20008 жыл бұрын

    In 5:30 , the statement becomes synthetic but doesn't it still stay a priori? So that statement is a bachelor is happy-go-lucky is a synthetic a priori isn't it? For example string theory is all theoretical, and purely mathematical and there isn't any empirical experience involved - making it a priori, yet it is also synthetic as we are making claims. So string theory is synthetic a priori. Right?

  • @maryamtariq9255
    @maryamtariq92553 жыл бұрын

    can i get its transcript?

  • @johnnycockatoo1003
    @johnnycockatoo10035 жыл бұрын

    up to page 49 … companion to Kant's critique of pure reason . by M C Altman

  • @rorymarsh4095
    @rorymarsh40956 жыл бұрын

    Isn't the concept of a triangle a 3 sided shape with angles adding up to 180 degrees? How is that genuinely new info making it synthetic? I think i've gotten myself confused haha

  • @mattconnell5659
    @mattconnell56592 жыл бұрын

    Thanks bro man.

  • @toddkoons790
    @toddkoons7909 жыл бұрын

    does that also mean that there are types of Empirical analytical knowledge as well? and if so what are examples of that?

  • @nimim.markomikkila1673

    @nimim.markomikkila1673

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Todd Koons "Being aware of being aware". Most people don´t realize being aware all the time, until they stop and verify it empirically from subjective experience. It´s also analytical, ´cause "being aware of being aware" is true by definition. But it´s also a priori, ´cause I have to be aware in the first place to become aware of being aware. It´s also synthetic, because most of the people haven´t made that non-phenomenal recognition of being aware all the time, so it gives us new knowledge in most cases, at least. So, as I see it, it´s all the possible combinations of knowledge. And as such, it´s unique.

  • @daledheyalef

    @daledheyalef

    7 жыл бұрын

    According to Kant, there is no such thing as a analytic a posteriori judgement (analytic emprical, as you put it).

  • @stephinsilvester7985
    @stephinsilvester7985 Жыл бұрын

    Thankyou...

  • @stephenanastasi748
    @stephenanastasi7482 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Suggest you put lots of soft stuff in your room to stop the echo - hard to listen.

  • @Orion225
    @Orion2255 ай бұрын

    Thanks for clarifying it. I guessed it right.😅

  • @bobertsonn
    @bobertsonn4 жыл бұрын

    you blew my tiny little mind

  • @MrPelafio
    @MrPelafio7 жыл бұрын

    0:29 "its nature"*

  • @pocketsurprise3805
    @pocketsurprise3805 Жыл бұрын

    Is an anylitylic judgement a tautology?