Kant, Metaphysics and the Progress of Science

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Independent Scholar, South Africa

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In this paper Immanuel Kant’s critical metaphysics is discussed, taking the antinomies in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Teleological Judgment as point of departure. An assessment is made as to what extent Kant’s metaphysics has been borne out to be correct in the progress of science.

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