Dr. Sadler, May I ask why Kant suggests after the 5+7 example that “We have to go outside these concepts by resorting to the intuition which corresponds to one of them, our five fingers for instance…” (Zöller 269). You said he isn’t literally suggesting we do arithmetic on our fingers, so is he just illustrating the concept that we have to go outside the concepts of 5 and 7? Is it not problematic that he appeals to intuition as math is supposed to be a priori? Thank you for this series.
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Dr. Sadler,
May I ask why Kant suggests after the 5+7 example that “We have to go outside these concepts by resorting to the intuition which corresponds to one of them, our five fingers for instance…” (Zöller 269). You said he isn’t literally suggesting we do arithmetic on our fingers, so is he just illustrating the concept that we have to go outside the concepts of 5 and 7? Is it not problematic that he appeals to intuition as math is supposed to be a priori? Thank you for this series.
Keep on reading the text
Well that's the entire point, for Kant apriori and synthetic do not contradict one another and form the basis of much of our knowledge.