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What, in Kant’s view, is the status and the significance of each of these three statements from the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science?
A: “Some bodies are heavy”
The status of this expression “some bodies are heavy” is according to Kant, a synthetic judgement because it expresses something that is not expressed in the general conception of a body. ... (Reasoning based on page 104, §2 and page 105, §2)
“All bodies are heavy”
Again, this is what Kant calls a judgement that “needs a special source of knowledge” ( 43, §2, line 15) This is so because there cannot be any “exception to this or that rule” and the judgement is thought with “strict universality”. ... However, in his example in the book, Kant states that in this case, “All bodies are heavy” this is only “an arbitrary extension of a validity holding in most cases” (43, §2, 12-13) Does this mean that when one states all bodies are heavy, one means; in most cases bodies are heavy?
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