@maxdancona,
Quote:This is exactly the point that I am making. When you look at the real world...
He fooled you, Max. He aint talkin about the "real world."
As I recall, Kant made a distinction between a priori knowledge which dealt only with "analytic truths" such as tautologies in logic and mathematical calculations; and a posteriori knowledge which dealt with "synthetic truths" such as might be found via empirical sensations.
His question was something like this: Is it possible to have analytic knowledge of synthetic propositions?
He finally said that it is, and cited Euclidean geometry as an example where analytic truths are also synthetic truths, because they apply to the "real world." Of course that was before Einstein got ahold of Riemannian geometry and claimed that IT applies to the world.
Well, them's the breaks, eh?