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Limitations of Category-knowledge

Now it is fair to reassess the correct dimensions of Kantian


achievements. The answer of category-theory is enough to justify claims of
truth for empirical judgments that maximize their sensibility to available
information (information given in a time-period of human experience). But it is
not enough to answer the skeptic claims against universal and apodictic
necessary knowledge. We can achieve a priori knowledge for time-binding
experience, but we cannot know that one set of categories will always be
better than others to adjust our knowledge to the last achievements in
theoretical science. Kant does not have an answer to explain the rationale for
the history of science. It remains to be known whether empirical science can
withstand the skeptical attack. Humeans can still claim that there is no
prediction of differences in structural knowledge: we may change our habits of
meaning to account for new discoveries in physics, but we can’t have a
genuine theory for predictions of scientific paradigm-change.

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