What single shared assumption, rather than rationalism or empiricism as such, opened the 'veil of perception' that drove the era toward skepticism?
How does the 'slide' toward skepticism run through the three empiricists?
When Hume says we have no idea of necessary connection in causation, he is claiming that…
Which best states why the three great rationalist systems count as a mark AGAINST rationalism's method?
Kant diagnosed the failure of the two roads as follows:
What is Kant's 'Copernican revolution'?
How does the Copernican turn make 'every event has a cause' answer Hume rather than merely restate the problem?
What is the price of Kant's securing of synthetic a priori knowledge?
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Explain Kant's 'Copernican revolution' and how the notion of synthetic a priori knowledge answers Hume's scepticism about causation. What does Kant have to concede in return?
What to cover: Set out Kant's diagnosis of dogmatism and scepticism, the reversal of the direction of fit, and the role of the forms of intuition and the categories. Explain synthetic a priori judgements and the phenomena/noumena limit.
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