Kant's Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of Metaphysics
by
R. Lanier Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The Poverty of Conceptual Truth is based on a simple idea. Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments underwrites a powerful argument against the metaphysical program of his Leibnizian-Wolffian predecessors—an argument from fundamental limits on its expressive power. In that tradition,...