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Presuppostion & Transcendental Inference

Presuppostion & Transcendental Inference

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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Logic

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ISBN10: 0367426269
ISBN13: 9780367426262
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2021
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

Originally published in 1985. This book is about a single famous line of argument, pioneered by Descartes and deployed to full effect by Kant. That argument was meant to refute scepticism once and for all, and make the world safe for science. 'I think, so I exist' is valid reasoning, but circular as proof. In similar vein, Kant argues from our having a science of geometry to Space being our contribution to experience: a different conclusion, arrived at by a similar fallacy. Yet these arguments do show something: that certain sets of opinions, if professed, show an inbuilt inconsistency. It is this second-strike capacity that has kept transcendental arguments going for so long.

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