KANTIAN VIEWS OF EMPIRICAL TRUTH

Let a Kantian view of empirical truth be any view according to which the truth of empirical claim depends on the truth of non-empirical claims, because subjects (consciously or not) constitute the empirical when applying the non-empirical to experience. Historically the most important such view is...

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Main Author: Nathaniel GOLDBERG
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2023-04-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5402
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description Let a Kantian view of empirical truth be any view according to which the truth of empirical claim depends on the truth of non-empirical claims, because subjects (consciously or not) constitute the empirical when applying the non-empirical to experience. Historically the most important such view is Immanuel Kant’s. It is not the only. Rudolf Carnap, Thomas Kuhn, and Donald Davidson held such views. Conversely, Willard van Orman Quine’s view was contrastingly instructive. My aim is to briefly sort all this out in search of lessons about the nature of empirical truth generally.
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spelling doaj-art-8e87e27289aa4dc4a8ecc5da4e7b42fb2025-08-20T03:34:13ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072023-04-0168110.24193/subbphil.2023.1.02KANTIAN VIEWS OF EMPIRICAL TRUTHNathaniel GOLDBERG0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5184-1246Washington and Lee University, 115 Nelson Street, Lexington, VA 24450-2116, goldbergn@wlu.ed Let a Kantian view of empirical truth be any view according to which the truth of empirical claim depends on the truth of non-empirical claims, because subjects (consciously or not) constitute the empirical when applying the non-empirical to experience. Historically the most important such view is Immanuel Kant’s. It is not the only. Rudolf Carnap, Thomas Kuhn, and Donald Davidson held such views. Conversely, Willard van Orman Quine’s view was contrastingly instructive. My aim is to briefly sort all this out in search of lessons about the nature of empirical truth generally. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5402anthropocentric; ethnocentric; idiocentric; Kant; Immanuel; logocentric; truth.
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KANTIAN VIEWS OF EMPIRICAL TRUTH
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
anthropocentric; ethnocentric; idiocentric; Kant; Immanuel; logocentric; truth.
title KANTIAN VIEWS OF EMPIRICAL TRUTH
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title_short KANTIAN VIEWS OF EMPIRICAL TRUTH
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topic anthropocentric; ethnocentric; idiocentric; Kant; Immanuel; logocentric; truth.
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