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Consider Kant’s argument about the separation between "empirical intuition" from "pure intuition." Why might this have been considered a novel argument in the time period in which he was writing?
Many students might find it helpful when answering this question to think back to Kant's place in the debates between rationalists and empiricists. Unlike the rationalists, who believed in the epistemological primacy of reason, empiricists believed that much of what we know comes to us through experience, especially through sensory data. In the Prolegomena, Kant acknowledges the importance of this latter aspect of our perception ("empirical intuition"), yet he also believed that...
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