By finding the answers to the metaphysical unanswered questions not in the external concept but rather in analysis of human reason, Kant provides plain restrictions for metaphysical speculation and retain a sagacious, experiential approach to knowledge of the outside world. Although the distinctions are similar to Kant’s a priori–a posteriori distinction and his synthetic–analytic comparison have been made by different thinkers such as Hume. Kant was the first to apply two such different to generate a third category for knowledge. Hume, for an example, does not make a difference between what Kant describes the analytic and the a priori and what he describes as the synthetic and the a posteriori, so that, for Hume, all synthetic judgments are necessarily a posteriori. Due to that, only a priori truths have essential qualities of being universal and extremely necessary, the general truths about reality is opposed to meticulous explanation about unconnected events that had to be a
By finding the answers to the metaphysical unanswered questions not in the external concept but rather in analysis of human reason, Kant provides plain restrictions for metaphysical speculation and retain a sagacious, experiential approach to knowledge of the outside world. Although the distinctions are similar to Kant’s a priori–a posteriori distinction and his synthetic–analytic comparison have been made by different thinkers such as Hume. Kant was the first to apply two such different to generate a third category for knowledge. Hume, for an example, does not make a difference between what Kant describes the analytic and the a priori and what he describes as the synthetic and the a posteriori, so that, for Hume, all synthetic judgments are necessarily a posteriori. Due to that, only a priori truths have essential qualities of being universal and extremely necessary, the general truths about reality is opposed to meticulous explanation about unconnected events that had to be a