Francis Ellingwood Abbot:The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena To Science (volume 2)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xiii the syllogism in general: nine canons op syllogistic SS 163. It is now time to enter into a more searching examination of the nature of the syllogism itself, and to inquire how any judgment whatever can be at once synthetic and necessary. This latter question was the original problem which confronted Kant, and he thought he had solved it by explaining all synthetic judgments as merely of a priori origin--that is, as due merely to an a priori constitution of reason, antecedent to all experience, and to the a priori combinations of this pure reason as acts of spontaneity. But this notion of spontaneity is fatal to his explanation. As the conclusion of our given syllogism, the synthetic judgment that Procyon shines by its own light is necessary; but mere spontaneity, whether in the sensibility a posteriori or in the understanding a priori, can never explain necessity--not even the subjective necessity which Kant intends. The real question is: why must the understanding combine that subject and that predicate affirmatively, and why cannot it combine them negatively? To say that it does combine them so a priori, or independently of all experience, would not say in the least that it must combine them so; while to say that it combines them so spontaneously would say that it combines them so without any assignable necessity anywhere. In either case, the synthetic judgment is not shown to be necessary at all, much less explained as such, and the original problem is evaded. To ground subjective necessity on mere acts of spontaneity, even if not an absolute contradiction (for spontaneity, it might be claimed, is itself disguised and unexplained necessity), is at least a curious instanc... Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Books, History, The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena To Science (volume 2) Books>History, General Books LLC<
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Francis Ellingwood Abbot:The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena To Science (volume 2)
- new book ISBN: 9781458983602
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrat… More...
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter xiii the syllogism in general: nine canons op syllogistic SS 163. It is now time to enter into a more searching examination of the nature of the syllogism itself, and to inquire how any judgment whatever can be at once synthetic and necessary. This latter question was the original problem which confronted Kant, and he thought he had solved it by explaining all synthetic judgments as merely of a priori origin--that is, as due merely to an a priori constitution of reason, antecedent to all experience, and to the a priori combinations of this pure reason as acts of spontaneity. But this notion of spontaneity is fatal to his explanation. As the conclusion of our given syllogism, the synthetic judgment that Procyon shines by its own light is necessary; but mere spontaneity, whether in the sensibility a posteriori or in the understanding a priori, can never explain necessity--not even the subjective necessity which Kant intends. The real question is: why must the understanding combine that subject and that predicate affirmatively, and why cannot it combine them negatively? To say that it does combine them so a priori, or independently of all experience, would not say in the least that it must combine them so; while to say that it combines them so spontaneously would say that it combines them so without any assignable necessity anywhere. In either case, the synthetic judgment is not shown to be necessary at all, much less explained as such, and the original problem is evaded. To ground subjective necessity on mere acts of spontaneity, even if not an absolute contradiction (for spontaneity, it might be claimed, is itself disguised and unexplained necessity), is at least a curious instanc... Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Books, History, The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena To Science (volume 2) Books>History <
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