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OBSERVATION
[Bxiii] In the Preface to B, Kant opposes mere observation to inquiry according to rules and principles of reason. He comments, "accidental observations, made in obedience to no previously thought-out plan, can never be made to yield a necessary law, which alone reason is concerned to discover".
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| A posteriori know... | A priori knowledge
| A priori, analyti... | | A priori, theory ... | A priori,presuppo... | ABSOLUTE
| ABSTRACTION
| ABSURDITY
| AFFINITY
| ALTERATION (CHANGE)
| AMPHIBOLY
| ANALOGY OF EXPERI... | ANALYTIC
| ANALYTIC METHOD
| ANALYTIC UNITY OF... | | ANTECEDENT PROPOS... | ANTHROPOLOGY
| ANTICIPATION OF P... | ANTINOMY
| APOAGOGIC
| APPEARANCE
| APPREHENSION
| APRIORI
| ARCHETYPE
| ARCHITECTONIC
| ATTENTION
| ATTRIBUTE
| AUTHENTICITY
| AXIOMS OF INTUITION
| Abbott, Lyman
| Abdera
| Abelard, Peter
| Abelson, Robert
| Abernathy, John
| Absolute
| Absolute idealism
| Absolute theism
| Absolutes
| Absolutism
| Abstract ideas
| Acquaintance
| Act agapism
| Act deontology
| Act teleology
| Act utilitarianism
| Action
| Action theory
| Adams
| Adams, Jay E
| Adams, Thomas
| Aenesidemus
| Aesthetic hedonism
| Aesthetic humanism
| Aesthetic stage
| Aesthetics
| Aeterni Patris
| Agapism
| Agapistic ethics
| Agnostic
| Agnosticism
| Albertus Magnus
| Albigensians
| Albright, Jacob
| Alesius, Alexander
| Alexander, Archib... | Alexander, James W.
| Alexander, Samuel
| Alleine, Joseph
| Allon, Henry
| | Altizer, Thomas J... | Altruism
| Altruistic
| Altruistic hedonism
| Ambrose
| Ambrose, Isaac
| Amish
| Ammann, Jacob
| Anabaptist
| | Analogical predic... | Analysis
| Analytic philosophy
| Analytical
| Analytical philos... | Analytical statem... | Anamnesis
| Anarchism
| Anaxagoras
| Anaximander
| Anaximenes
| Anderson, James
| Anderson, John R.
| Andrewes, Lancelot
| Angier, John
| Animal faith
| Anselm
| Anthony of Padua
| Anthropology
| Anthropomorphism
| Antifallibilism |
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