Kant: Natural science

Kant explains that natural science or physics is a synthetic A priori judgment. he also asks the question of natural science being pure. if he means can you just know about a science then no you must learn and be taught by someone or you must experience some type of thing to know about science.

Kant: Synthetic judgments

Kant says that you can not use synthetic judgments because you will lapse in your principal purpose. An this will make metaphysics contradict itself. Since a synthetic judgment is something that is informative i think that right there Kant contradicts himself. He is implying that if you start to expand your mind and start to see more things then you will start to realize that all things over lap some place. I think that maybe Kant could have used Analytic judgments as an example. He could have said that if you listen to analytic judgments the things you are hearing may or may not be true and it also may not have any new meaning.

Kant: pure mathematics

Kant asks the question "How is pure mathematic possible?". I think that he when he says that you need to know A priori information to know any kind of mathematics. So i think the answer would be no mathematics is not pure someone is always going to have to figure it out. You cant just know what the answers are.

Also you cant just have math in your head. You have to at least have some type of picture before you can figure out what the answers to the questions are.

"Contrary" to what Hume says about Miracles

According to Hume a miracle is “a violation of a natural law”. Thus, miracles do not exist since there cannot be a violation of a natural law without the natural law being adjusted to fit the violation. Violation, however, could mean contrary to. Thus, one can say a miracle is “contrary to a law of nature.” If miracle is defined with “contrary to” rather than “violation” then miracles can occur. Miracles are occurrences caused by nonnatural forces and hence, contrary to natural laws. This is a different way to think about it. It is a bit less cynical than Hume's thinking that miracles do not exist. To learn more about this go to....http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/miracles/