Maimon's "quid facti" argument

Yaron Senderowicz

pp. 176-199

in: Gideon Freudenthal (ed), Salomon Maimon: rational dogmatist, empirical skeptic, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

Maimon's "quid facti" argument is traditionally regarded as his most serious objection to Kant's transcendental philosophy, its conclusion being that Kant's theory of experience is inadvertently compatible with Hume's skepticism. He esteems Kant's painstaking analysis of the concept of experience as one of the supreme achievements of the human mind, comparable to Euclid's.¹ Nevertheless, Kant's resp

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel

Maimon Salomon