How is pure natural science possible?
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"How is pure natural science possible?" is a central guiding question in Immanuel Kant’s *Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics*, where he investigates the a priori conditions that make objective, law-governed natural science possible.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Kantian concept
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epistemological question ⓘ philosophical question ⓘ |
| addresses |
limits of metaphysics compared to natural science
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possibility of mathematics of nature ⓘ role of the understanding in constituting nature ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
justification of Newtonian natural science
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showing the possibility of necessary and universal natural laws ⓘ |
| asksFor |
grounds of the necessity of natural laws
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how synthetic a priori principles apply to nature ⓘ |
| author | Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| basedOn |
doctrine of a priori forms of sensibility
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doctrine of the categories of the understanding ⓘ transcendental idealism ⓘ |
| concerns |
a priori conditions of experience
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conditions of the possibility of natural laws ⓘ law-governed character of nature ⓘ objectivity of empirical knowledge ⓘ possibility of objective natural science ⓘ synthetic a priori knowledge of nature ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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philosophy of science ⓘ theoretical philosophy ⓘ |
| genre | transcendental philosophy question ⓘ |
| guidingQuestionOf | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
18th-century philosophy
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Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ |
| influences |
Neo-Kantianism
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subsequent philosophy of science ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainWork | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| method | transcendental investigation ⓘ |
| originalTitleFragment | Wie ist reine Naturwissenschaft möglich? ⓘ |
| partOf | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| presupposes |
distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge
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distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
conditions of possible experience
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phenomena and noumena distinction ⓘ principles of pure natural science ⓘ principles of pure understanding ⓘ schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding ⓘ synthetic a priori judgments ⓘ transcendental deduction of the categories ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
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