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This book describes its novel assumption that the world conforms to our knowledge as the “Copernican revolution” in philosophy. (10[3])Quine’s Two Dogmas of Empiricism attacks a (10[1])distinction originated in this book between statements that are true by definition and statements that are true because (10[1]-5[1])they (10[1])describe (10[1])the world. (10[4]-5[2])This book uses the terms “phenomena” (10[2]-5[2])and “noumena” (10[6])(“NOO-men-uh”) to (10[2])describe (10[1])the (10[1])appearance of a (10[1])thing (10[3])and (-5[1])the unknowable (10[1])thing-in-itself (10[3]-5[1])as part of its system (-5[1])of transcendental (-5[1])idealism. (10[3])This (10[1])1781 (-5[1])book (10[1]-5[2])argues that (10[1])since (10[1])infinitely many sets of numbers (10[1])add to 12, the statement (10[2]-5[2])“7 (10[1])+ 5 = (10[1])12” (10[1])is synthetic a priori. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this (10[2])“First Critique” (10[5]-5[1])of (10[1])Immanuel (10[4])Kant. (10[6])■END■ (10[45]0[18])

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