Hume Vs Kant

David Hume is one of the philosophers who held an empiricist view. This means that he advocated for knowledge that only comes from the senses. Immanuel Kant held a different viewpoint in that he was both an empiricist and a rationalist. Moreover, Kant thought that Hume was right that we gain some knowledge through experience, however, Kant also believed that there was something else to add to that theory. Kant's rationalist perspective asserts that people are given certain knowledge from the beginning of life and this knowledge is brought out upon interaction with objects as well as by using our judgements to understand these concepts further. appeared to have two opposing views with regard to how we come to know things. Although Kant states

Kant agrees with Hume up until the point where Hume states that we cannot know anything outside of our experience. To Kant, there are some concepts that we have in our brain that did not come to us through experience. in addition, Kant believes that there are some things that we know based on experience but there are also some things that are hardwired into our brain from the very beginning. This is what Kant calls synthetic apriori. Kant argues that notions such as math and physics will never serve as a constant satisfactory sense of knowing (695). Therefore, metaphysics must exist because it draws from experience and pure rational concepts (695). Moreover, pure rational concepts do not seek answers through experience, but they are methods that we use in order to organize our understanding

The first that Kant describes is analytic judgements which is apriori knowledge about something based on the words that are used in the sentence (666). For example, "all bachelors are not married". The sentence tells you explicitly that a bachelor is an unmarried person and one does not gain anymore knowledge from this. Next, Kant explains that apriori synthetic judgements are different because they extend one's knowledge about a subject. For example, "all bachelors are alone" allows us to draw on the knowledge that a bachelor is an unmarried man, and this is why they are alone (666). For aposteriori synthetic judgements, the knowledge about something does not exist within the words in the sentence but rather the judgements add to one's knowledge, but it is not a commonly known concept (666). For example, "all bachelors are unhappy", this phrase is not equally believed across the world and therefore is a judgement made to expand one's knowledge. According to Hume, mathematics and metaphysics are classified as analytic, but Kant disagrees and believes that they are both synthetic (668). His reasoning for this theory is because if we had an equation like 1+3, this does not give us the answer which is 4. Instead, we must use our knowledge to come up with an answer to the subject. Therefore, to gain this