Kant’s notion of synthetic a priori knowledge is rather technical and requires some technical explanation, in terms of what he means by what. It is therefore entirely necessary to define the relevant terminology from a Kantian perspective. Although Kant agrees with the commonly held definitions of some terms like a priori and empirical, it is important to note that he was the first philosopher to introduce the distinction between synthetic and analytic propositions. The purpose of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is to defend metaphysics from Hume’s outright exclusion of it from philosophy and Kant is of the opinion that the notion and possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge can do that (Gardner, 1999). Kant thinks that it is synthetic a priori knowledge that all metaphysical inquiry hopes to acquire and that the possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge is equivalent to the possibility of metaphysics (Gardner, 1999).

A priori knowledge is knowledge that is......

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