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The poverty of conceptual truth : Kant's analytic/synthetic distinction and the limits of metaphysics / R. Lanier Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, R. Lanier, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Judgment.
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 408 pages ) : illustrations (black and white)
- Other Title:
- Kant's analytic/synthetic distinction and the limits of metaphysics
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- R. Lanier Anderson presents a new account of Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments, and provides it with a clear basis within traditional logic. He reconstructs compelling claims about the syntheticity of elementary mathematics, and re-animates Kant's arguments against traditional metaphysics in the 'Critique of Pure Reason'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 20, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-179219-5
- OCLC:
- 905691090
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