Short Paper on Immanuel Kant

W3 Assignment: Short Paper on Kant

Kant famously–and controversially–argued that
some knowledge is synthetic a priori. Can you explain in your own words what
Kant might have meant by this, and can you give an example of the sort of
knowledge that Kant believed possessed this strange status?

HINT: To answer this question in a clear and well-organized manner, you
might want to first explain and illustrate Kant’s distinction between apriori
and aposteori knowledge and also his distinction between empirical and
synthetic judgments.

Please ensure that your essay addresses each
component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized,
uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual
evidence. Your essay should be 600-900 words long.