(2 of 3) The Collapse of the Analytic Synthetic Distinction: Insights from Science

[ResistTyranny101]

For instance, Sartre in Being & Nothingness determines that Nothingness has its being in Being, not outside of it. It can't exist on its own - impossible. He rejects Kant's noumena for having its independent Platonic Otherness, rather than being the plenitude wherein consciousness negates to achieve a For-itself pov. Nevertheless, Kant's only error is that inner connection, not in his selection of statements to describe such delineations, right? He still bridges the empiricsts and rationalists.

[ResistTyranny101]

I think all this suggests is that Kant needed better examples, that's all. You can still use his structure to get at his point, the idea of the synthetic a priori propostion and the implications of that, which gets us to an understanding of the innate structures of thought that are the necessary basis of all phenomena, right?

[bhigr]

All men are mortal. It depends on your definition of man. If you define man as any being with conscience, free will and the faculty of reason, then all men are mortal is a synthetic proposition. It does not follow from the definition. It follows by incomplete induction a posteriori. So far all observed men have died.

Bacteria are not living according to the standard biological definition of life. Bacteria do not have a metabolism. Therefore, they are not living beings.

[DoCWaSaBe]

an even better example about not dying is "Turritopsis nutricula"

[NaiveRealist]

Thanks DoC,

I'll look that up.

[DoCWaSaBe]

but ur example is perfect for showing how things change with time!

[TigerFist999]

This was very helpful. Thank you.

[dimphil]

I think all men are immortal in spirit.