Metaphysical Foundations Of Natural Science by Immanuel Kant
Presents a systematic attempt to ground the basic concepts and laws of classical physics in a priori conditions of cognition, explaining how space, time, and the categories of the understanding make possible a “pure” part of natural science. Organized into phoronomy, dynamics, mechanics, and phenomenology, it analyzes motion, forces of attraction and repulsion, and the lawful behavior of matter to show how mathematics can necessarily apply to nature. By deriving the form and necessity of physical laws from the conditions of possible experience, it aims to reconcile empirical investigation with metaphysical justification.
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- Published
- 1786
- Nationality
- German
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 150-250
- Original Language
- German
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- Metaphysical First Principles of Natural Science
- Metaphysical Foundations of the Science of Nature
- Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
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