Immanuel Kant -We Cannot Make Judgments About the Metaphysics of the Universe

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Multiple Choice

Immanuel Kant
-We cannot make judgments about the metaphysics of the universe as a whole because

• A)the universe is totally unknown to us.
• B)any statement about the true nature of the universe has an opposite,and nothing can prove one to be true and the other to be false.
• C)our judgment knows only the phenomenal world,and so nothing can be known about the noumenal world.
• D)the universe does not exist apart from our perception of it.

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Definitions:

True Dialogue

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