Monday, May 5, 2008
Kant page 11
Hume really begins to state the obvious truth in the beginning of his book and although it may be obvious after reading it was also surprising a few minutes after thinking about what he was saying. He says that all "judgments of experience are synthetic" meaning that they can not be "analyzed" or measured and we sort of have to take them as they occur. Then on the other hand he says that all mathematical judgments are synthetic which is true considering that we derive these figures through understanding, but what gets me is that unlike those "judgements of experience" math can be predicted accurately and we can also expect certain things to occur, unlike those "experiences" where we can not accurately analyze an outcome or that reaction to that action.
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I agree with what you are saying about judgements being synthetic. I think that you can not analyzed a judgement because it is basically a decision made by a person. How can you analyze something that many people amy or may not agree on? It makes no sense to me that you can analyze a judgement because people will always have different judgements about different things.
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