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Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science Immanuel Kant Preface can present anything concerning existence. The necessary propositions involved in natural science, therefore, have to be the concept-based ones that define ‘metaphysics of Nature’. There are two possibilities for what they might be:
Kant: Metaphysical foundations of natural science / translated and edited by Michael Friedman. p. cm. – (Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index.
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (German: Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft) is a 1786 book by the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Properly so-called natural science presupposes, in the first place, meta-physics of nature. For laws, that is, principles of the necessity of that which belongs to the existence of a thing, are concerned with a concept that cannot be constructed, since existence cannot be presented a priori in any intuition.
The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science presents his most mature reflections on these themes in the context of both his 'critical' philosophy, presented in the Critique of Pure Reason, and the natural science of his time.
The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science presents his most mature reflections on these themes in the context of both his 'critical' philosophy, presented in the Critique of Pure...
28 de ene. de 2022 · In his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (1786), Kant accounts for the possibility of an acting-at-a-distance gravitational force, demonstrates the infinite divisibility of matter, and derives analogues to Newtonian laws of motion.
