Masters Thesis

Transcendental arguments

In this paper I wish to show that our standards of rationality are justified by the conditional necessities presented in transcendental arguments. This will be done by stating what is the problem of the justification of our standards of rationality and how that problem arose. I will show that transcendental arguments present a solution to this problem by presenting a transcendental argument and examining the conditional necessities on which it is based. Then the nature of conditional necessities themselves will be examined and it will be shown how our standards of rationality are justified. As a result, the need for transcendental arguments will have been established and skepticism regarding these standards will have been countered.

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