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27.1.23

Argument between Jacob Fries and Hegel

The main argument between Jacob Fries and Hegel is about how to get beyond Kant's iron wall between meta physics in its second half which is about things that cannot be experienced as a whole as opposed to metaphysics in its first half which is about concepts about things that can be experienced. To Fries this is by immediate knowledge which does not come through reasoning through any principles nor any senses. To Hegel this is by the dialectic process of what is commonly known from Kant's phrase thesis anti thesis synthesis.To a degree, Kant was taken in by Hume who limited pure reason to detecting contradictions in concepts. He repeats this limitation often enough, but strangely just assumes it from his experience from teaching Euclid. But that is not to say that there is no difference in types of reasoning from unpacking definitions to reasonable assumptions. [The approach of Leonard Nelson and Kelley Ross is much better than that of Fries. However, Fries still gets the credit for the idea of non intuitive immediate knowledge, and that is why this school of thought is called the Friesian School. It does solve many problems in Kant.]