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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
sites.pitt.edu4 Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals ence, empirical, but that which puts forth its doctrines solely from princi- ples a priori, pure philosophy.The latter, when it is merely formal, is called logic; but if it is limited to determinate objects of the understanding, then3 it is called metaphysics. In such a wise there arises the idea of a twofold metaphysics, the idea of
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
assets.cambridge.orgsynthetic. Analytic judgments are, roughly, true by definition: when we say that a moon is a satellite of a planet, we are not reporting the results of an astronomical discovery, but explaining the meaning of a term. The second is the a priori/a posteriori distinction, which concerns the way we know that a judgment is true.