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Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant was educated during a period dominated by disputations between rationalists (e.g. Descartes, Leibniz) and empiricists (e.g. Hume). Kant attempted to explain the relationship between human experience and reason and move beyond the impasse that existed between the two dominant schools in the mid-eighteenth century. Kant was perturbed by Hume’s scepticism and particularly his refutation that effect could be logically deduced from the cause given sufficient knowledge. According to Hume, belief in a necessary connection stems from the imagination, induced by the repetitive perception of constant conjunctions between a cause and its associated effect. Hume’s analysis lends Itself to the view that judgements concerning matters of causation
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