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PhiloSophos home  Jean Piaget and Immanuel Kant: The Concept of
the A Priori  by John Eberts  What is knowledge? This is a basic
question man has asked in his attempt to understand his rational
being. Immanuel Kant and Jean Piaget have both approached this
question in a specific manner.  For Kant, knowledge is based
upon the nature of the 'a priori'. This a priori resides only in
the knowing subject, and subjectivity constitutes all that is
valid in the object of knowledge. Kant's a priori is the form of
universality and necessity belonging to these objects. Kant
states that even if space and time are the a priori of
sensibility, they underlie the construction of the mathematical
science; thus, all a priori are intell