The Philosopher Immanuel Kant Based Many of His Arguments on Transcendental

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Multiple Choice

The philosopher Immanuel Kant based many of his arguments on transcendental inferences. A commonplace example of such an inference is a

• A) physicist inferring what the attributes of the electron must be on the basis of visible effects that it causes.
• B) computer scientist inferring what the attributes of a program must be on the basis of his or her long-range goals for the program's functioning.
• C) biologist inferring how an organism is likely to behave in the future on the basis of assessment of past behaviors.
• D) behaviorist inferring how a behavior was learned on the basis of a deduction from well-established principles of learning.

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