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BWE
Posted 2009-05-19 6:20 AM (#61)
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That which has gone before.

Immanuel Kant realized that we use models to understand space and claimed time was a component of the model. He arrived at this conclusion after considering how we can know what is on the other side of an object etc. That we can model the object and create an a priori concept of it in order to navigate it seems quite obvious today. But Einstein's general relativity puts time as a thing, not an idea.

Does this disprove Kant's assertion that time is a priori?

If I mangled the argument, feel free to point out where.
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Danhalen
Posted 2009-06-19 4:02 AM (#370 - in reply to #61)
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BWE - 2009-05-19 9:20 AM

Does this disprove Kant's assertion that time is a priori?
No. Kant asserted there is such a thing as synthetic a priori knowledge. If time is a thing and we can know about it through introspection alone then it is an example of synthetic a priori knowledge.
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BWE
Posted 2009-06-19 1:20 PM (#375 - in reply to #61)
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But if space time is a place, then it is not synthetic. No?
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Danhalen
Posted 2009-06-29 6:49 AM (#467 - in reply to #61)
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Sorry about the delay. I just got back from vacation yesterday.

Space/time, being part of "the world out there," is synthetic. It is the analytic which does not exist "out there."
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BWE
Posted 2010-02-17 3:24 AM (#633 - in reply to #467)
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Damn. I always get that backwards. Analytic is in here, synthetic is out there. I forget Kant as fast as I read him.
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