Kant on the Basis Validity of the Concept of Arithmetic

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

In his Critic of Pure Reason Kant reveals that arithmetical propositions are synthetical. To show this, Kant convinces it by trying to get a large numbers of evidence that without having recourse to intuition or mere analysis of our conceptions, it is impossible to arrive at the sum total or product. In arithmetic , intuition must therefore here lend its