Einstein, Kant, and the A Priori.

Kant's original version of transcendental philosophy took both Euclidean geometry and the Newtonian laws of motion to be synthetic a priori constitutive principles—which, from Kant's point of view, function as necessary presuppositions for applying our fundamental concepts of space, time, matter, an...

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Published in:	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement Vol. 83; no. 63; pp. 95 - 113
Main Author:	Friedman, Michael
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2008
Subjects:	Transcendentalism (Philosophy) Philosophy Euclidean algorithm Geometry Motion Spacetime
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