A central aspect of Kant’s philosophy, synthetic judgements a priori are judgements which are both synthetic—or made true not by their components but by an outside meaning or signification of those components—and a priori, or knowable without experience. The law of cause and effect is often given as an example, but in this case as in others, Nietzsche finds Kant’s arguments unconvincing.
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1. On the Prejudices of Philosophers
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life—that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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1. On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Nietzsche finds the concept of synthetic judgements a priori , one of the key pillars of Kant’s philosophy, to be strictly speaking untrue. He...
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