1. Immanuel Kant’s Theory of Knowledge
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German Philosopher

2. Copernican Revolution
Synthetic A Priori Knowledge

3. Kant on Hume
“Hume awakened me from my dogmatic slumber”

4. Critique of Pure reason Kant took
In his
Critique of Pure reason
Kant took
the best from Hume and the Empiricists
and the best from Descartes and the Rationalists

5. Transcendental Idealism
The view that:
The FORM of our knowledge of reality comes from REASON
But the CONTENT of our knowledge of reality comes from OUR SENSES

6. Form of Knowledge Comes from Reason: Relations between things
Causes of things
Laws relating to things
Organization of things

7. Content of Knowledge Comes from our Senses: Tastes Smells Sounds
Shapes

8. Example:
Every event has a cause

9. We assume that all events have a prior cause
We cannot make sense of things simply happening for no reason at all

10. The mind must force events to fit into the mold of cause-effect if it is to know and understand them

11. “Although all knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all knowledge arises out of experience”

12. Transcendental Structure of Mind
Our minds have a structure that we impose upon all the information we receive thru experience

13. Space
Time
Causality

14. Synthetic A Priori Knowledge
We know a priori that all our experiences will include
Space
Time
Causality