1. David Hume's Fork and Immanuel Kant's Synthetic A Priori

[CommunistWarrior1917]

Thank you for uploading this. I hope that this video helps me understand Kant better.

[3skeletons]

get that kat as a tat ,

[drjasonjcampbell]

@3skeletons ...you evil sh$t!!! LOL. Now it's infected my brain!!! WOW what a suggestion!!! BWAHAHAAH!!! I just may have to, GENIUS!!!

[drjasonjcampbell]

@3skeletons ...not only will I get the tat. I'll give you a shoutout for being so powerful a mind as to get me on THAT level...that's what I'm all about!! Your words my friend VERY VERY powerful!!!

[Runrunred1]

Why is it called a fork

Forks are utensils

[ianmathwiz7]

I think you need to stop starving your kitty cat...it looks so thin.

[PEATANTICS]

On the other side of the coin is the problem of synonyms.

Or words that are eqivalent in meaning but of different phonetic composition.

Batchelor is equivalent to Un or not married yet or divorced or other words "The man has no wife"

The domain of gender is brought onto the table with the suffix "ette" or "ess" batchelorette or batcheloresse.

So sailor or sailorette room with a view for fifty cents.

[PEATANTICS]

Point 1 = Nominal Equivalence in that cat and mat are meaning conventions.

Point 2 = The is definite and on means "IS INCLUDED OVER OR NOT UNDER NOR BESIDE"

Point 3 = Epistimologically the observer merely saw a drawing of a cat or a synthetic representation of a cat not the cat in itself.

Point 4 = Surrealistic in that only a representation of the mat and cat were observed.

Referances = The Treachery of Images, Wikipedia

[drjasonjcampbell]

@PEATANTICS ...Gangster...love the various conceptual takes on a philosophical classic...

[PEATANTICS]

@PEATANTICS

Point 5 I have one bullett point left in my sixshooter.

Point 6 Do for your others as you would like them to do for you.

Referances: Not out of ammo, rat a tat tat I have a digital camera.

Luv ya all Peat:)

[PEATANTICS]

@PEATANTICS at such a phenomena exists metaphysically is the gap that ought to be bridged.

The word in itself is never the thing as it is in real life, only ever is it an agreement.

Between members of a society/culture as to that object/subject which is referred too.

Epistimologically I beleive it is known as the explanatory gap and the word is "QUALYA"

I seek to remind Dennett the Daniel in the lions den that is his quality of life good?

In his academic chair yes if sacked no quality of life.

[PEATANTICS]

Poor old batchelor with no hun no fun.

Looks like the mat hid the cat under it.

Next to that is bones eating up dogs.

Nouns are verbal in the sense of see.

Chair exists as a complement to its maker.

[PEATANTICS]

I do not need to apologise for this drive by shooting.

The claims are as robust and immutable as gold.

[spooky599]

@PEATANTICS I must surely speak for everyone...what on Earth are you on about?

[SalmonJanetOle]

Jason, why does Kant call it a "synthetic" proposition if it deals with real things?

[SalmonJanetOle]

@SalmonJanetOle (or rather, I guess the use of synthetic was way before Kant) but why is that word used

[StatelessLiberty]

@SalmonJanetOle

The word "synthesis" means the act of "building", so "synthetic" is used in the sense of building new knowledge.

[davis849]

@SalmonJanetOle because the proposition's predicate is not contained within the term itself, you must synthesize the subject with something outside of it in order to establish truth. "All bodies have weight" <-- the word "body" does not imply any weight necessarily.

[LiberalsUtopian]

A black philosopher?!?!? Now ive seen everything.

[drjasonjcampbell]

@Omnicron777 I talk about this in more explicit detail in my series on the prolegomena where Kant discusses the ampliative/synthetic and explicative/analytic in more mathematical/logical terms. The discourse in the lecture series on the prolegomena is more in line with your comments. I wanted to keep this lecture user friendly, but ur absolutely right about verification.

[drjasonjcampbell]

@Omnicron777 Good point. 

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

and thats where Hume fails big time just at the point of actually observing that the cat is on the mat and verifying the truth function of the synthetic claim.We know from empirical observations that we can not trust our senses.Sitting in a train and seeing another train move or is it in fact your train thats moving and the optical illusions where the cat is made to look sitting on the mat but is in fact not sitting on the mat at all.Therefor we must reach the conclusion that Humes idea is wrong

[apekillssnake]

I get ya! Your eraser is not working- a synthetic claim. Right!!

[SuperBelaVita]

Life saver!!! your amazing XD

[KajiCarson]

Fantastic video--well explained!

[anthmi2]

Man,you are the bomb bruh.... It is very inspiring to see a black man hold it down in Philosophy.....my school has 95% white professors , but they don't teach in the brilliant fashion as you....Theyattempt to complicate the issue, like they are the only people that can process theories within philosophy.......I clearly understand everything you are saying and I'm going to refer to your videos from this point going forward........Excellent work....

[NoddingChicken]

you have saved my life. too, too much love for you :)

[NickHostuart80]

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[guerreromda]

Holy damn. I was 15 minutes trying to understand "the cat is on the mat" as analytical proposition, because of a simple confusion because people usually speak of analytical first than synthetic. Damn difficult to imagine a mat IN the cat.

[kennygrind]

Can you briefly relate this to causality between the two philosophers?

[DETROITSSAVIOR]

f.y.i- ur awesome!!

[PopJellyStudios]

Thank you sooo much!! :D

[TheMillion84]

I'm a philosophy student and I've seen A LOT of drawings of cats on mats. I must say Dr. Campell, your depiction is by far the best I have come across! A+

[urbanelf]

I'm pretty sure "the cat is on the mat" is tautological. What would a mat be without a fluffy white kitty curled up on it?  Just some boring kitty-less piece of crap, that's what.

[drjasonjcampbell]

Indeed! what would a mat be without a fluffy white kitty?

[pakk82]

@urbanelf haha

[Ziggamafu]

@urbanelf cats are not on mats by definition, but bachelors are unmarried by definition. However, a mat without a kitty IS a boring, kitty-less piece of crap by definition. So "The mat without the kitty is a boring, kitty-less piece of crap" would be tautological. Hope this clears things up for you.

[drjasonjcampbell]

:-) Glad to help...peace...