The Philosophy of Nature

It may be noted in passing that it was an extraordinary notion of Kant's to claim that the definition of the straight line as the shortest distance between two points is a synthetic proposition, for my concept of straightness contains nothing of size, but only a quality. In this sense every definition is a synthetic proposition. What is defined, the straight line, is in the first place the intuition or representation.

Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 09/10/2010
Pages: 58
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.52h x 9.25w x 0.12d
ISBN: 9781162704586

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