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Kant's Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy

Published Mon, Jun 8 2009 5:59 PM | laminustacitus

In his Critique of Pure Reason , Immanuel Kant defines a synthetic judgments as one in which the predicate “B lies outside of the concept A, though connected with it,” as opposed to analytic ones in which “the predicate B belongs to...

Filed under: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Synthetic Judgments, Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy, Synthetic A Priori, Analytic Judgments

The Action-Axiom: Introduction

Published Mon, Jun 8 2009 4:08 AM | laminustacitus

The action-axiom is the basis of all praxeology, and it is the basic proposition that all specimens of the species homo sapiens, the homo agens, purposefully utilize means over a period of time in order to achieved desired ends. In Human Action , Mises...

Filed under: Immanuel Kant, Praxeology, Aristotle, Ludwig von Mises, Action-Axiom, positivism, Human Action