Sentence examples for systematic unity of nature from inspiring English sources
So Kant is saying that the systematic unity of nature is a trivial consequence of transcendental affinity.
In this, the physicotheological argument's emphasis on the purposiveness and systematic unity of nature illuminates an assumption that Kant takes to be essential to our endeavors in the natural sciences.
Now since empirical affinity is the complete application to actual empirical nature of the system of causal laws under transcendental principles, it follows that empirical affinity is the same as the systematic unity of nature.
In other words, now Kant is saying that the transcendental affinity of the manifold does not entail an empirical affinity of the manifold or the systematic unity of nature.
Here Kant asserts that at least some regulative uses of judgment, and in particular, regulative judgments about the systematic unity of nature, have a transcendental presuppositional bearing on the truth of both synthetic a priori and synthetic a posteriori judgments in natural science, and do not play a merely secondary or heuristic role in scientific investigation (CPR A648/B676, A651/B679).
His general tendency was to strengthen the systematic unity of those subjects and to reduce the transcendental or Platonic elements of Aristotelianism as a whole.
Philosophy was once thought to stand for the systematic unity of the sciences.
The systematic unity of the "All" Rosenzweig seeks to know in the present, remains a possibility to be actualized.
Taken together, these principles express reason's interests in securing systematic unity of knowledge and bringing such knowledge to completion.
Not only would such a strategy guarantee the systematic unity of philosophy itself, but, more importantly, it would also display what Kant hinted at but never demonstrated: viz., the underlying unity of reason itself.
Sometimes Kant suggests merely that we ought to seek systematic unity of knowledge, and this merely for own theoretical convenience (A771/B799-A772/B800).
