Sentence examples for synthetic judgment from inspiring English sources

There aren't many movies in which characters talk about Kantian a priori synthetic judgment, but that's Eric Rohmer for you.

Metaphysics cuts itself off from sense experience in attempting to go beyond it and, for this very reason, fails to attain a single true a priori synthetic judgment.

In short, a synthetic judgment is an intuition-based proposition.

According to most philosophers, the claim that lying is (either defeasibly or non-defeasibly) morally wrong is "a synthetic judgment and not an analytic one" (Kemp and Sullivan 1993, 153).

A synthetic judgment then accords with the law of determinability when its predicate is a real determination of the subject (i.e., when its predicate is asymmetrically dependent upon its subject).

In his general discussion of mental representation, Kant implies that immediacy and singularity are both criteria of non-conceptual, intuitive representation, the species of representation that grounds synthetic judgment.

In the Transcendental Dialectic Kant turned to consideration of a priori synthetic judgments in metaphysics.

These distinctions were used by Kant to ask one of the most important questions in the history of epistemology, namely, whether a priori synthetic judgments are possible (see below Modern philosophy: Immanuel Kant).

By contrast, synthetic judgments can be either a priori or a posteriori.

Third, as is the case with all synthetic judgments, the meaning and truth of a synthetic a priori judgment is intuition-based.

But this negative characterization of course does not tell us what the truth of synthetic judgments positively consists in.