Announcements: Study Guide Available Wednesday. Next Exam: Wed 13th covering Berkley, Hume, Kant, Pierce
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Hume compared to Kant
Hume: All analytic statements are a prori (relations of ideas). All synthetic statements are a posteriori (matters of facts & existence).
Criticism of rationalists like Descartes that try to prove factual matters, what exists through a priori reasoning. All conceptual reasoning can tell you about is concepts. Exception: A contradiction can't be true, so contradictory concepts can't be represented in the real world.

Kant: All analytic statements are a priori, disagrees by saying there are some synthetic a priori statements.
Every effect has a cause (analytic, a priori)
Every event has a cause (synthetic a priori)
We know every event has a cause (if it didn't science wouldn't work, but science clearly does work)
Every event has a cause is a presupposition of science, we couldn't do science with out it. It must be known a priori, Empiricism is wrong.
Kant is a mix of empiricist and rationalist