Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00114)

The following quote was obtained from Parrini (1994)
Kant and Contemporary Epistemology, p. 203:

"By nature, in the empirical sense, we understand the
connection of appearances as regards their existence
according to necessary rules, that is, according to
laws. There are certain laws which first make a nature
possible, and these laws are a priori. Empirical laws
can exist and be discovered only through experience,
and indeed in consequence of those original laws
though which experience itself first became possible."

So if laws originate a priori then how can we
determine whether these laws actually exist or a
merely products of pre-existing laws which were
discovered a priori? Touch of maya in there somewhere,
I am sure.

mic

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