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Presuppostion & Transcendental Inference (Paperback)
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Presuppostion & Transcendental Inference (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Logic
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Originally published in 1985. This book is about a single famous
line of argument, pioneered by Descartes and deployed to full
effect by Kant. That argument was meant to refute scepticism once
and for all, and make the world safe for science. 'I think, so I
exist' is valid reasoning, but circular as proof. In similar vein,
Kant argues from our having a science of geometry to Space being
our contribution to experience: a different conclusion, arrived at
by a similar fallacy. Yet these arguments do show something: that
certain sets of opinions, if professed, show an inbuilt
inconsistency. It is this second-strike capacity that has kept
transcendental arguments going for so long. Attempts to re-build
metaphysics by means of such transcendental reasoning have been
debated. This book offers an introduction to the field, and
ventures its own assessment, in non-technical language, without
assuming previous training in logic or philosophy.
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