Kant's Introduction to Logic and His Essay on the Mistaken Subtilty of the Four FiguresKant'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. |
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