 | Science - 1903 - 592 pages
...the service he hoped to accomplish in the following words: "In metaphysical speculation it has always been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects; but all attempts from this point of view to extend our knowledge of objects a priori by means of conception have ended... | |
 | Georg Lukacs - Philosophy - 1972 - 412 pages
..."Copernican Revolution", a revolution which must be carried out in the realm of the problem of knowledge: "Hitherto, it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to the objects. . . . Therefore let us for once attempt to see whether we cannot reach a solution to the... | |
 | J.H. Fetzer - Philosophy - 1985 - 302 pages
...knowledge is infused by elements which do not come from the external world and which are thus "a priori": Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge...assumption, ended in failure. We must therefore make trail whether we may not have more success in the tasks of metaphysics, if we suppose that objects... | |
 | Merold Westphal - Philosophy - 2010 - 145 pages
...metaphysics would find the "sure road to science" it must undergo just such a Copernican revolution. "Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects. . . . (Instead, let us] suppose that objects must conform to our knowledge."5 And Barth: God's revelation... | |
 | Ruth F. Chadwick, Clive Cazeaux - Causation - 1992 - 332 pages
...'Copernican Revolution', a revolution which must be carried out in the realm of the problem of knowledge: 'Hitherto, it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to the objects .... Therefore let us for once attempt to see whether we cannot reach a solution to the... | |
 | H. L. Hix - Philosophy - 1995 - 234 pages
...is real. But all attempts to ground our ethical theories by discovering a transcendental principle have, on this assumption, ended in failure. We must...whether we may not have more success in the tasks of ethics, if we suppose that the ethical world is fictional. The ethical world loses none of its weight... | |
 | Mark Gelernter - Art - 1995 - 324 pages
...can knowledge arise." Baroque philosophy had confused these two functions, Kant suggested, because 'hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects'." That is, his predecessors had assumed that the knowledge we possess about the world ultimately derives... | |
 | Christine Marion Korsgaard - Philosophy - 1996 - 466 pages
...needed demonstration - or "deduction" - of the synthetic a priori principles of the understanding. "Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects." Instead, we must suppose that objects must conform to our knowledge. For "we can know a priori of things... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 566 pages
...The finest statement of Kant's Copernican revolution appears in the preface to the second edition: "Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge...objects. But all attempts to extend our knowledge" on this model have "ended in failure. We must therefore make trial whether we may not have more success... | |
 | Martin Heidegger - Philosophy - 1997 - 332 pages
...meaning of Kant's thesis, which is frequently misunderstood and which is called his Copemican revolution: "Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects . . . {this, however, did not lead any further in the clarification of metaphysical knowledge}. We... | |
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Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects. 
