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What is the problem with an ontological view?

שו”תCategory: faithWhat is the problem with an ontological view?
asked 6 years ago

Kant attacks the argument by saying that the analytic is empty and cannot invent new things.
Intuitively, it’s the initial lack of training in such a view, how the hell did you define something and you decide that it exists.
But I don’t understand, causality is my assumption about the world, and I take it for granted that this is how the world behaves, even though I’ve never seen it, as the Grat Yom extended.
Now, let’s assume that causality was not so simple for me, but that I had to prove with a logical proof that this is how I perceive reality, would this be an ontological proof? So, how is the perception of causality that can make a premise about the world different from an ontological view? The only ‘problem’ with the view is that it is not directly accessible to me and I have to do a conceptual analysis to understand that this is how I perceive.
L. A. Kant claimed that conceptual analysis cannot add data about the world, and the answer is that in reality the analysis does not add any data. It essentially shows me that this is how I perceive the world. Anyone who wants to claim that I perceive it this way but in reality it is different should first question causality.
What’s wrong with that?


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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago
If you follow the author (and even more so in the first available book, which contains an updated version of it), you will see that I distinguish between a priori and conceptual. An ontological view is based solely on an analysis of the definition of a concept. An a priori view is possible, but it is not based on definitions but on a priori assumptions. That is something entirely different. The principle of causality is an a priori assumption (even that is not very accurate in my opinion), but not a definition. A factual conclusion from a definition is impossible. A factual conclusion from an a priori assumption is an a priori synthetic sentence.

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