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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
If a human's thought of God is God, then the human would be having an intellectual intuition of God. Kant does not think that this is possible.
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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
Existence is not the subject of this sentence; it is a logical or grammatical predicate, but Kant does not think it is a "real" predicate because it gives no idea about the subject.
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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
Kant does not think that existence is a predicate or idea and thus it cannot be contained in the idea of anything.
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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
Kant does not think an intellectual intuition of existence is possible for humans, and if it were, "this thing exists" would be an analytic proposition.
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Kant thinks that the statement "this thing exists" is a synthetic proposition because:
{ 1 } - the thought of God is God.
{ 2 } - existence is a subject.
{ 3 } - existence is contained in the idea of God.
{ 4 } - an intellectual intuition is possible for humans.
{ 5 } - if it is an analytic statement, it is nothing more than a miserable tautology.
In a tautology, the predicate says the same thing as the subject, and for Kant if "this thing exists" is an analytic statement, it is equivalent to "the existing thing exists."
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