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Immanuel Kant (22 April1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher.
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Critique of Pure Reason
It is, therefore, a question which requires close investigation, and is not to be answered at first sight,—whether there exists a knowledge altogether independent of experience, and even of all sensuous impressions? Knowledge of this kind is called à priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge which has its sources à posteriori, that is, in experience. Critique of Pure Reason gen·er·a plural of genus, a class of things that have common character-istics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds.
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/categories/
A system of categories is a complete list of highest kinds or genera. Traditionally, following Aristotle, these have been thought of as highest genera of entities (in the widest sense of the term), so that a system of categories undertaken in this realist spirit would ideally provide an inventory of everything there is, thusanswering the most basic of metaphysical questions: “What is there?”
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Skepticism about the possibilities for discerning the different categories of ‘reality itself’ has led others to approach category systems not with the aim of cataloging the highest kinds in the world itself, but rather with the aim of elucidating the categories of our conceptual system. Thus Kant makes the shift to a conceptualist approach by drawing out the categories that are a priori necessary for any possible cognition of objects. Since such categories are guaranteed to apply to any possible object of cognition, they retain a certain sort of ontological import, although this application is limited to phenomena, not the thing in itself. After Kant. . .
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Kant was one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlighten-ment and arguably one of the greatest philosophers of all time.
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The simplest way of describing the contents of the Critique is to say that it is a treatise about metaphysics: it seeks to show the impossibility of one sort of metaphysics and to lay the foundations for another. The Leibnizian metaphysics, the object of Kant’s attack, is criticized for assuming that the human mind can arrive by pure thought at truths about entities which, by their very nature, can never be objects of experience, such as God, freedom, and immortality.
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Kant maintained, knowledge must rest on judgments that are a priori, for it is only as they are separate from the contingencies of experience that they could be necessary and yet also synthetic…
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Fact Late 15th century: from Latin factum, neuter past participle of facere ‘do.’ The original sense was ‘an act or feat’. The earliest of the current senses (‘truth, reality’) dates from the late 16th century.
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Manu●fact●ure That which is made. By hand.
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There are no FACTS Without SACKS
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