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The Epistemology Of Immanuel Kant, David Carl Bratz Apr 1982

The Epistemology Of Immanuel Kant, David Carl Bratz

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It has been the tendency of philosophers in the Twentieth Century to examine the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in parcels, by analyzing key Kantian concepts, arguments, and distinctions without relation to the architectonic to which they belong. Thus, for example, large bodies of literature are devoted exclusively to Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, to his conception of Categories, and to his argument that existence is not a predicate. The elucidation and employment of isolated Kantian ideas has greatly enhanced many contemporary philosophical theories, particularly in epistemology, and manifests the enormous debt owed Kant by modern thinkers. On this …