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Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves

Rae Langton

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Langton offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. He aims to vindicate Kant's scientific realism, and show his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior.

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Langton offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. He aims to vindicate Kant's scientific realism, and show his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior.

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Langton offers an interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. He aims to vindicate Kant's scientific realism, and show his primary/secondary quality distinction to be superior.

Key concepts: Idealism, Ignorance, Humility, Philosophy, Unobservable, Realism, Epistemology, Index (typography)

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