How is pure natural science possible?
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"How is pure natural science possible?" is a central guiding question in Immanuel Kant’s *Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics*, where he investigates the a priori conditions that make objective, law-governed natural science possible.
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Target entity: How is pure natural science possible? Context triple: [Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, section, How is pure natural science possible?]
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Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
"Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature" is Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s early work in which he develops a speculative, Romantic-influenced philosophy of nature that complements and prepares the ground for his later System of Transcendental Idealism.
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History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
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unity of science
Unity of science is a philosophical doctrine holding that all scientific disciplines are fundamentally interconnected and can, in principle, be integrated into a single coherent framework.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
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Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: How is pure natural science possible? Target entity description: "How is pure natural science possible?" is a central guiding question in Immanuel Kant’s *Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics*, where he investigates the a priori conditions that make objective, law-governed natural science possible.
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A.
Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature
"Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature" is Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s early work in which he develops a speculative, Romantic-influenced philosophy of nature that complements and prepares the ground for his later System of Transcendental Idealism.
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B.
History of the Inductive Sciences
History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
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C.
unity of science
Unity of science is a philosophical doctrine holding that all scientific disciplines are fundamentally interconnected and can, in principle, be integrated into a single coherent framework.
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D.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper’s foundational philosophical work that introduces falsifiability as the key criterion distinguishing scientific theories from non-scientific ones.
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E.
Conjectures and Refutations
Conjectures and Refutations is a major philosophical work by Karl Popper that develops his theory of scientific knowledge through the ideas of falsifiability, critical testing, and the growth of knowledge via bold hypotheses and their refutation.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Kantian concept
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epistemological question ⓘ philosophical question ⓘ |
| addresses |
limits of metaphysics compared to natural science
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possibility of mathematics of nature ⓘ role of the understanding in constituting nature ⓘ |
| aimsAt |
justification of Newtonian natural science
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showing the possibility of necessary and universal natural laws ⓘ |
| asksFor |
grounds of the necessity of natural laws
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how synthetic a priori principles apply to nature ⓘ |
| author | Immanuel Kant ⓘ |
| basedOn |
doctrine of a priori forms of sensibility
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doctrine of the categories of the understanding ⓘ transcendental idealism ⓘ |
| concerns |
a priori conditions of experience
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conditions of the possibility of natural laws ⓘ law-governed character of nature ⓘ objectivity of empirical knowledge ⓘ possibility of objective natural science ⓘ synthetic a priori knowledge of nature ⓘ |
| field |
epistemology
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philosophy of science ⓘ theoretical philosophy ⓘ |
| genre | transcendental philosophy question ⓘ |
| guidingQuestionOf | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
18th-century philosophy
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Enlightenment philosophy ⓘ |
| influences |
Neo-Kantianism
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subsequent philosophy of science ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainWork | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| method | transcendental investigation ⓘ |
| originalTitleFragment | Wie ist reine Naturwissenschaft möglich? ⓘ |
| partOf | Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ⓘ |
| presupposes |
distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge
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distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
conditions of possible experience
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phenomena and noumena distinction ⓘ principles of pure natural science ⓘ principles of pure understanding ⓘ schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding ⓘ synthetic a priori judgments ⓘ transcendental deduction of the categories ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Critique of Pure Reason ⓘ |
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