Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Since Kant himself acknowledges in the Paralogisms that i... — Carmelics
    Home
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Supports→Kant's Refutation of Idealism fails to provide leverage against external-world skepticism because a skeptic who doubts external objects would equally doubt memory of temporally ordered past experiences.

    Since Kant himself acknowledges in the Paralogisms that inner sense does not give knowledge of the soul as a thing-in-itself, the reliability of memory-based temporal ordering cannot be secured from within Kant's own system.

    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.

    No one has weighed in yet. Be the first to share reasons for or against this statement.

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Key Terms

    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Memory-based temporal ordering(how we know when things happened relative to each other)
    The way we organize events in time using our memories—arranging what happened into a sequence of past, present, and future.
    Paralogisms(in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason)
    A section of Kant's major work where he critiques faulty arguments about the soul and self; Kant warns against certain claims we can't actually know about our inner nature.
    Secured from within Kant's own system(whether Kant's philosophy can solve this problem on its own terms)
    Whether something can be proven or established as true using only Kant's own philosophical framework and assumptions, without bringing in outside ideas.

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Explore a random proposition
    Start fresh with something unrelated.
    inner sense(Cited as the basis of the rival empiricist hypothesis against Kant's a priori synthesis)
    Introspective experience from which empirical information about one's mental states is derived
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    reliability(what induction is trying to prove about itself)
    The quality of consistently producing correct or trustworthy results; something you can depend on to work.
    thing-in-itself(Kant's distinction between appearances and things-in-themselves in the Second Antinomy)
    An entity whose properties and divisions subsist independently of any act of experience or cognition, such that its decomposition into parts would form a completed (or completable) sequence.

    Connections

    1 topic

    Skepticism1 linked

    Related

    Kant's Refutation of Idealism fails to provide leverage against external-world s...

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    0 (0 for, 0 against)
    Edits
    1 edit

    Open for perspectives

    This idea is waiting for its first supporting or challenging perspective.

    Share the first perspective