ther way, are synthetic judgements possible a priori. Brought to light now are more of Kant's theories, influenced of course by Hume. Synthetic judgements- as opposed to analytical judgements- are judgements based on experience. A priori is another term that he uses as well. It is defined by Hume as uninfluenced by experience. Essentially he is asking a question that doesn't seem possible- can we make judgements based on experience, with out actually experiencing it. To answer this seemingly unanswerable question, Kant divides metaphysics into two forms- the general and the special. General metaphysics incorporates universal terms- everything that we can make general statements about with some validity. Special metaphysics, on the other hand, deals with separate and higher beings- there are deep roots in theology and religious beliefs in this aspect of metaphysics. This distinction allows him to view metaphysics in two different ways with two different outcomes. Kant's next step is crucial in dealing with the problem of metaphysics. He now takes what he calls the Copernican turn. Like Copernicus, Kant believes that we should not look to what we experience, but rather how we experience. Copernicus, in his theory on the apparent motion of the sun, turned away from the accepted belief that the earth revolves around the sun, a belief that seem to apply to the laws of common sense. Copernicus saw that the movement should not be placed in us, but in something else. His theory was eventually accepted because it had a greater explanatory value than the obvious, common sense statement. Like Copernicus, Kant felt that we should try to remove ourselves and our influence from the explanation of metaphysics. In other words, he felt that we should look specifically to how we experience things. It was here that Kant turns to his theory of sensibility, or the "form of sensibility" as he calls it (Modern Philosophy, 591). Kant looks...
