Summary of Kant Kant commences his critique with a description of science as a pure path (to truth presumably) and continues that logic has followed that path to completion. He then distinguishes logic as being abstract and reason more realistic. He also seems to be bridging rationalism and empiricism by applying cognition to reason. ... He gives an account of the rise of human presumptions and the reason behind them. Kant says that schools, lack of critique in general lead to a discipline following the wrong path, He describes the edition and speculates about the future. ...

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He wrote such works as his "Copernican Revolution" and "The Critique of Pure Reason". ... Kant's theory, states that "as the a priori form of space makes possible the pure science of geometry, the a priori form of time makes possible the pure science of numbers" (Adler, 1952). ...

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He stressed that we must study reason to find out what is beyond the capability of reason. ... Hume's critique of causation is that we cannot see it, we must deduce it. ... We therefore conclude that reason is a limited sense and that we have no reason to trust our common methods of disagreement. ... Kant began to examine pure "a priori" reason by establishing his assessment. ... This places math and science within reason. ...

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In The Truth of Ecology (2003), Dana Phillips critiques ecocriticism for the problematic separation of the literal and the literary; Phillips reminds us that texts written or read from an ecological perspective may well be literal (or descriptive or realistic or naturalistic) in mode but can't avoid being literary in medium. ... Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of ecocriticism of the sort he pursues is beyond my scope here. (8) Rather, in paying greater attent...

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