Real Existence, Ideal Necessity: Kant's Compromise, and the Modalities Without the Compromise

by Robert Greenberg

Analytic philosophy has leveled many challenges to Kant's ascription of necessary properties and relations to objects in his Critique of Pure Reason. Some of these challenges can be answered, it is argued here, largely in terms of techniques belonging to analytic philosophy itself, in particular, to its philosophy of language. This Kantian response is the primary objective of this book. It takes the form of a compromise between the real existence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110206900
• ISBN13: 9783110206906
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary