Postulates of Empirical Thought in General
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Postulates of Empirical Thought in General is a section of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason that lays out the conditions under which empirical judgments about existence, possibility, and necessity are valid.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
doctrine in transcendental logic
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philosophical concept ⓘ section of a philosophical work ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
grounding modal judgments in relation to experience
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showing the empirical meaning of modal concepts ⓘ |
| author | Immanuel Kant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns |
actuality
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conditions of validity of empirical judgments ⓘ empirical thought ⓘ modal categories ⓘ necessity ⓘ possibility ⓘ |
| dateOfPublication | 1781 ⓘ |
| defines |
conditions of empirical actuality
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conditions of empirical necessity ⓘ conditions of empirical possibility ⓘ conditions under which empirical judgments are objectively valid ⓘ |
| distinguishes |
logical possibility from real possibility
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mere thought from experience ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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theory of knowledge ⓘ transcendental philosophy ⓘ |
| follows | Analogies of Experience NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKeyTheme |
limits of pure reason in determining existence
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objective validity of modal judgments ⓘ relation between a priori principles and empirical reality ⓘ |
| hasPhilosophicalTradition | German idealism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influences | subsequent discussions of modality in philosophy ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| locatedInWorkPart |
Analytic of Principles
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Transcendental Analytic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Postulate des empirischen Denkens überhaupt ⓘ |
| partOf |
Critique of Pure Reason
NERFINISHED
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doctrine of principles in the Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
| precedes | Appendix to the Transcendental Dialectic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatesTo |
Kantian category of existence–non-existence
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Kantian category of necessity–contingency ⓘ Kantian category of possibility–impossibility ⓘ |
| revisedIn | 1787 edition of the Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
| states |
that what agrees with the formal conditions of experience is possible
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that what is connected with the material conditions of experience is actual ⓘ that what is determined by universal conditions of experience is necessary ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
a priori principles
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categories of modality ⓘ empirical intuition ⓘ experience ⓘ |
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