Round 7: Tossup 13

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

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