This book argues that the cosmological argument for God, which posits "necessary being," is invalid because it reduces to the ontological argument.
In a section on "combination," this book distinguishes the concept of "understanding" from "sensibility," which is the "faculty of representation." This book argues that the cosmological argument for God, which posits "necessary being," is invalid because it reduces to the ontological argument. Though not by A. J. Ayer, it introduced a distinction attacked by W. V. O. Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism by defining statements that affirm a predicate that belongs to a subject as (*) "analytic," as contrasted with "synthetic" statements. This book posits the concept of the unknowable noumenon, or "thing-in-itself," which humans perceive as phenomena. It gives space and time as examples of a priori synthetic truths. For 10 points, name this 1791 tome on metaphysics by Immanuel Kant, the first of three "critiques."
In a section on "combination," this book distinguishes the concept of "understanding" from "sensibility," which is the "faculty of representation.
Critique of Pure Reason [or Kritik der reinen Vernunft] &lt;WA, PhilO&gt;