Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

Quine concludes: The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to th ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 781 false stamp. In plain language, this means that there is not and cannot be any such thing ...

TWO DOGMAS OF EMPIRICISM Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental ...

782 IMMANUELKANT 260 261 immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, ...

The above examples consist of singular terms, concrete and abstract. With general terms, or predicates, the situation is somewha ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 783 262 We have been long accustomed to seeing antiquated knowledge produced as new by taking ...

class of analytic statements, and therewith of analyticity generally, inasmuch as we have had in the above description to lean o ...

784 IMMANUELKANT 264 265 266 to Any Future Metaphysics,still obscure, let him consider that not everyone is bound to study metap ...

Just what it means to affirm synonymy, just what the interconnections may be which are necessary and sufficient in order that tw ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 785 § 2. Concerning the Kind of Knowledge Which Can Alone Be Called Metaphysical a. On the Di ...

Both sorts of economy, though prima facie incompatible, are valuable in their sepa- rate ways. The custom has consequently arise ...

786 IMMANUELKANT 269 272 of mathematicians all proceed according to the law of contradiction (as is demanded by all apodictic ce ...

on to present difficulties of formulation in its turn. Nevertheless some progress might be claimed in having reduced the problem ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 787 propositions neither can, nor ought to, arise analytically, by dissection of the concept, ...

really make sense? To suppose that it does is to suppose that we have already made satisfactory sense of ‘analytic.’ Then what a ...

788 IMMANUELKANT 270 271 the synthetical judgments which are to be generated by these previously analyzed concepts. The conclusi ...

be cognitively synonymous when the statement of identity formed by putting ‘=’ between them is analytic. Statements may be said ...

PROLEGOMENA TOANYFUTUREMETAPHYSICS 789 indeed many propositions, demonstrably certain and never questioned; but these are all an ...

Alternatively we may, indeed, view the so-called rule as a conventional definition of a new simple symbol ‘analytic-for-L 0 ,’ w ...

790 IMMANUELKANT 276 277 it is possible, in order that we may deduce from the principle which makes the given knowledge possible ...