Ume's and Kant's Views of Term Paper

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All the people know what the brain is, what it looks like and where it is located. This does not however constitute the basis for the idea of min, yet the concept exists and is powerful enough to give birth to endless debate.

Kant on the other hand underlines the fact that the properties which the mind has and which allow it to create meaning depend exclusively on the physical existence of the mind. Hume might be characterized as a skeptic who needs the empiric truth in order to be able to admit the validity of an existing concept/idea/thing. Kant on the other hand is more concerned with a theory which we might define as a transcendentalist one.

If the mind has the capacity of acknowledging the difference between the perception and the creation of the concepts, then it must be that the mind does not necessary need the physical experience in order to reach the ultimate phase (that of the concept- which Hume claimed was based on the idea- which at its turn was based on the impression).
There is an a priori contribution that the mind makes, which actually allows it to make judgments and evaluate concepts......

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