Philosophy of Math Lecture 28 - Kant's Theory of Space and Time- Part 1of 3

[Ranger11413]

When do the strippers come out ?

[philipkthompson]

i wish my grandsmas would have spoken to me like that. my life would've been totally different.

[MegaKickurass]

space and time work....if iraaan called me tomarow i might answer 716 1719

[FilosofieRomaneasca]

someone could just download and upload again this lectures :D

[oali94]

female Chomsky?

[dylanlawless1]

I wonder what would happen if this aired some night instead of jersey shore

[davidus3]

@dylanlawless1 There'd be too many Platonists.

[mlknight14]

I say--what a clever dame!

[narono1510]

umm i hate to burst kant's bubble but i can analytically prove that a triangle's interior angles add up to 180 degrees

[iHateCensorship99999]

@narono1510 im only an undergrad so double check this,But i dont think that you can. As the lady said,youd have to prove the interior sum synthetic a priori(The knowledge of the interior sum is discovered due you synthesising experiences and concepts,yet this is done prior to experience of a triangle as a triangle is a construction of the mind using the a priori concept of time-no triangles exist in the external world,only shapes which imperfectly represent them.something like that anyways

[EmotionalWasteland]

Judith V Grabiner is absolutely marvellous; she makes difficult subjects easy to understand and she has such amazing charisma. Not your regular maths professor!

[r240j]

i wish my professor be like these but no hope , good lecture

[GAREBEARB92]

PLEASE do not take these lectures on Kant down at the end of the class. They are extremely helpful and it would be a shame to remove such a resource from those eager to use them.

[guruu13]

@alifeofreason true dat

[coatofarms05]

Ayn Rand sister.

[ForestMarchini]

You're awesome!!

[ZerstorenAH]

@alifeofreason Nietzsche would laugh? Nietzsche was the end of metaphysics in general. And Ayn Rand's philosophy expounded very significant things that needed to be established.

[slitor]

@ZerstorenAH LOL! Established on her own biases you mean?



[smutery]

i beg to differr with the final quote, space is not the form possible perceptions, it is to most like ingeneering concepts,or mostly any mental picture or sense but this is only because our senses are so strongly atached to a spacial contex(vew touch even sound) but u can imagine some concepts without the need of space, not as a whole universe or model of existance...but u can have thoughts wich do not require space,like concepts such as death or even arithmetics here u just think of values

[fzeyda]

From a modern viewpoint of mathematics it is not quite obvious that the judgment about the sum of the angles of a triangle is synthetic. A lot of 20th effort has been focused on mechanising mathematics. Thus finding truth becomes essentially a handle-pushing exercise that could be equally well, if not more reliably, performed by a computer. The perception of space is only require to formalise geometry, but not to prove the conjecture, which thus becomes analytic.

[SherryVapors]

Thank you sooo much for posting these.

[dannidandannikins]

@Steve2323ZX screw you, irrational fuckwit.

[MULESLAX]

I am too stupid to be watching this.

[blatantblithe]

This is very useful, thanks so much for sharing! :)

[Zaphenath4]

A real thought provoker.

[Fersomling]

The proper German pronunciation of Kant sounds rather like the one-syllable Anglo-Saxon term for "vagina."

[MrSeanMDickinson]

cheers

[dannidandannikins]

'we can imagine a space without objects, an empty space, but we can't imagine objects without space'

If this is empirical then Kant is empirically wrong. If you try to imagine space without objects then you will fail, it has to be a space marked out by objects or - in the mind - a space unlimited by other concepts in the mind. to imagine space without any other concepts in your mind is a metaphysical impossibility since the concept of self will always be there, as will the concept of your mind.

[MULESLAX]

@dannidandannikins I concur! This befuddled me as well, didn't seem right!