Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:09:55 -0500

Allan C Cybulskie wrote:
> Well, you pretty much said that a notion of cause and effect is pretty much
> required for us to have an idea of the world that we can understand (hence
> we always seek causes when we seek to understand the world). And that's
> really all that Kant said about causation.

It is what WE need. It says nothing about external reality. By the we
way -observe- cause and effect all the time. It is the necessary
connection between the two that we never observe.

Bob Kolker

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