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3 total works
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer
by Immanuel Kant, Emanuel F Goerwitz, and Frank Sewall
Published 1 June 1994
The "Dreams of a Spirit-Seer" (1766) belongs to Kant's pre-critical work. It was a humorous critique aimed chiefly at the philosophers of his day, using Swedenborg as a convenient mark for his blows. Metaphysical contentions are groundless, since metaphysical concepts such as spirit cannot be characterized in positive terms. To survive, metaphysics must become a science of the limits of human knowledge.
Kant's Introduction to Logic and His Essay on the Mistaken Subtilty of the Four Figures
by Immanuel Kant
Published 1 January 1995
Kant's "Logic" (1800) is just a compendium of ordinary scholastic logic, clearly designed for teaching purposes, and of no great philosophical interest. His "Introduction", however, gives us - in non-technical language - his views on a number of issues in epistemology: analytic and synthetic judgments, intuitions and concepts, truth and falsity, knowledge and probability.
