Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: Key Concepts
Analytical Judgment
An analytical judgment is any knowledge or truth which is apparent with evidence of the human relation of the concepts involved, without any intervention of experience (e.g., the triangle has three angles). The judgment is always a priori analytical.
A Posteriori
That which is the result of experience is a conical or a judgment or a truth to what can be neither universal nor necessary because it is linked to experimental facts that are contingent.
A Priori
A priori is independent or prior to experience. Kant states very clearly that their criteria are the universal and necessary. In the formation of knowledge, a construction of mind, not only involving elements of the experience but what constructs the subject, bringing that experience, can not thus incorporate information that through the senses is received is merged with the very elements of the subject and are a priori. At that time science comes true knowledge.
Categories
Categories are concepts and represent pure understanding, strictly rational functions. They permit us to distinguish, for example, between the plurality and unity, existence or nonexistence, affirmation and negation, which find their origin in the experience but it is applied. Their mission is therefore the intellectual recognition of the phenomena in order to think about them. They are innate in humans and, indeed, mean cognitive ability and rational human nature.
Thing in Itself (Noumenon)
There are certain things to Jean to the possibilities of the sensitive intuitions and not be captured by the senses are not knowable. That is, first, the thing would be like if the hardware that must be assumed in the thing perceived, second the mind can think whatever you want, if not supports sensible is not the object of knowledge. Ultimately, the counterpart noumenon is phenomenon.
Dogmatism
How metaphysics is produced by addressing things that are not experience, or ideas, wanting to establish their alleged transcendental knowledge on sound evidence, not being able to do, places his arguments and forget that all knowledge should be subject to criticism.
Skepticism
When attacking (moisture) to the metaphysical dogmatism, but nothing is done to reelaborate the possibility of knowledge and limited to the critical empiricist, then arises what Kant called skepticism, something needed to combat the dogmatic but not a place where they can rest forever. Area A priori conditions that make possible the formation of the experience of a phenomenon.
Space
Space is a contribution transcendental subject that applies to the sensation.
Experience
It is the dividing line between science and metaphysics, is drawn from intuitions sensibles to which the person who receives them print a form espacip-time. That is only and exclusively the subject congnoscente and by whom is organized and structured feeling. Loa obleto phenomena are the experience, which is based in science.
Phenomenon
Where the subject of the outside world is ordered under the structural conditions (spacetime), the object reveals itself as something organized, with sense, then called the phenomenon, being the opposite of noumenon.
Transcendental Idealism (Criticism)
Name given by Kant in his own philosophical doctrine. Can be summarized as: the subject is a must cognosciente constructive role in the formation of knowledge.
Judgment (Statement)
Is one’s ability to judge human understanding; Elazar is a subject with a predicate. Judgments are possible thanks to categories. A priori (from experience, a posteriori (independent of experience).
Analytical Judgment
That knowledge on which to be the predicate of the sentence included in the meaning of the subject provides no new knowledge, but it is logically true and makes his opponents impossible.
Synthetic Judgment
A judgment in which the idea contained in the predicate is not contained in the subject, the link is extended by the knowledge. What is expressed by the judgment will be based on experience.
Synthetic Judgments A Priori
Is a synthetic view, i.e., based on extensive experience, which has been developed so that the link established between the subject and the predicate turns out to be universal and necessary. Is that man has discovered that in nature there are facts, events and relationships that can be expressed in a universal and necessary way.
Time
Time is one of the a priori conditions that make possible the formation of experience as a phenomenon. Time is a transcendental subject to porting it applies to the sensational.