Timeline for What did Kant have to say about atomism?
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| Mar 21 at 7:33 | answer | added | user73173 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 28, 2023 at 5:34 | comment | added | RodolfoAP | Kant's Second Antinomy deals precisely with atomism. Antinomies are basically contradictions between rational phenomena that appear to be true simultaneously, while reason would be illusory (Transcendental Dialectic). The second antinomy presents the contradiction between the rational certainty that there must be an indivisible (the atom), and the notion that tells that parts are always wholes that can also be divided in parts recursively. | |
| Jan 28, 2023 at 1:36 | history | edited | Conifold | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 27, 2023 at 20:15 | comment | added | Frank | @Conifold - Yeah that is interesting, because a lot of old philosophy that could not be informed by the latest advances in science can be regarded as "obsolete". Less to read hahaha | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 15:32 | comment | added | Conifold | Nothing good. "In the Metaphysical Foundations the aether clearly has a merely hypothetical status. To be sure, Kant appears to be convinced of its existence, and he accordingly vigorously opposes a natural philosophy based on atoms and the void. Yet he also firmly asserts that it is not possible to rule out such an atomistic philosophy a priori". Friedman, Kant and Exact Sciences, p. 217. Later (in the so-called Transition manuscript of 1799) he changed his mind for the worse and attempted to deduce aether and rule out atomism even a priori, ibid. p. 221. | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 14:28 | comment | added | J D | Maybe "Das ist Wunderschön"? | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 14:08 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | Hello : do you need to use the German 'Modell' rather than the English 'model' ? If you do, 'modell' should be capitalised to 'Modell'. But anyhow, welcome to PSE. Best - Geoffrey | |
| Jan 27, 2023 at 14:03 | history | edited | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
'whether' replaces 'wether'
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| S Jan 27, 2023 at 13:48 | history | asked | Sven | CC BY-SA 4.0 |