Compare And Contrast Kate And Hume

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The second premise he uses to describe the way geometry is a synthetic a priori is, “Synthetic a priori knowledge is possible only if space is a merely form of our intuition and not a property of things in themselves” (SEP). In other words, since knowledge of geometry and space equal the same then that means they are both synthetic a priori. So in the end, the knowledge of geometry has to be based on nothing but our own minds. “Kant claims that although we can represent space as empty, we cannot represent to ourselves the absence of space” (SEP). Hume on the other hand, he believes that there is also two principles to his argument as well. First, “the capacity of the mind is limited, and can never attain a full and adequate conception of

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