The Philosopher Immanuel Kant Based Many of His Arguments on Transcendental

question 14

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 the electron 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.