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Kant was using the term transcendental in the context of what he calls a transcendental deduction which is an argument or "exposition" that establishes a necessary role for an a priori principle in our experience. According to Kant, all analytical and conceptual truths are a priori propositions, independent from experience, so (in reverse) all a posteriori truths are synthetic or factual. Is there, in addition to analytic-aprioric and synthetic-aposterioric knowledge, also synthetic-aprioric knowledge? Kant set this problem to the main question of his epistemology - he aspired to indicate, that e.g. mathematical truths and "necessary qualifications to knowledge of experience", like "General law of causality", are synthetic-apriorics.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
(1770 - 1831)

G.W.F. Hegel agreed with Immanuel Kant that necessary truths must be mindimposed, but, like other critics of Kant, he rejected the idea of the thing-in-self as unintelligible. This led him to the view that all that exists must be mental. Hegel's philosophy is not only a form of idealism, it is also a form of monism. In his Encyklopädie (which has three parts, the first is called "Logic" or "The Lesser Logic", to distinguish it from the two volume "Wissenschaft der Logik" (1812-1813, 1816); the second is called "The Philosophy of Nature" and the third "The Philosophy of Mind"), Hegel gives a systematic account to what stages the mind "returns to itself". Hegel's "Logic" is not a treatise on formal logic. He calls logic "the science of thought"; and since, for him, thought is reality, the science of thought turns out to be a metaphysics.

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Isaac Newton
(1642 - 1727)

Newton's masterpiece, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("The Mathematical Priciples of Natural Philosophy"), appeared in 1687. This work sets forth the mathematical laws of physics and "the system of the world."

Frege, Gottlob
(1848 - 1925)

Gottlob Frege attempted - in his The Foundations of Arithmetic (Grundlagen der Arithmetik, 1884) and Fundamental Laws of Arithmetic (1893-1903) - to make arithmetic secure by deriving it from the laws of logic: his philosophy grows out of the problems which that attempt engenders.

About the year 1920 gathered a number of philosophers around professor Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) as a group called The Vienna circle (by Wikipedia). Some central persons of that group were, besides Schlick, Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970), Otto Neurath (1882-1945) and Herbert Feigl (b. 1902), also to its activities were participating logician Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) and as opponent Karl Popper (1902-1993). The circle had an effect e.g. to following philosophers: Hans Reichenbach (1891-1953) and Carl G. Hempel (1905-1997) in Berlin, Alfred J. Ayer (b. 1910) in England, Ernest Nagel (b. 1901) and Willard V. Quine (1908-2000) in USA, logician Alfred Tarski (1902-1983) in Poland and Eino Kaila (1890-1958) in Finland.

Tarski, Alfred
(1902 - 1983)

Quine, Willard V.
(1908 - 2000)

The question dealing with an existence of general concepts belongs to the part of philosophy, which is called ontology, where base-elements and structures of the reality will be examined. Willard V. Quine express the base-question of ontology in form: "What exists?"; according to his answer separate concept-systems contains different (depending on value-propositions of variables which are bound by two quantors) existence-hypothesis's - ontological commitments - which have to accept by them who are using this system. So, in realistic systems is made stronger "commitments" than in nominalistic systems.

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