Changes

Kant's primary contribution to epistemology our understanding of scientific change is his attempt to merge facets of the two opposing views of the time - classical empiricism and the then-contemporary rationalism - into a singular theory on the nature of knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010). In order to do so, he had to distinguish key concepts which had not previously been made explicit. These distinctions, alongside his efforts to amalgamate rationalism and empiricism, left lasting impressions and opened new fields of inquiry in epistemology as well as other branches of philosophy.