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Isn't it admirable within philosophical language to be objective and have an independent point of view? ==============================================...

Possibly, but his philosophy isn't complete without asking where these a priori pure intuitions and a priori Categories came from. ===================...

For Kant there is a priori pure intuition of space and time and the a priori pure concepts of the understanding (the Categories) These are necessary f...

If the concept of "apple" didn't exist, how could we be talking about the concept of "apple"? If the word "apple" wasn't real, how could we be writing...

I agree that my innate ability to see the colour red when looking at a wavelength of 700nm is not a subjective ability, although my seeing the colour ...

The point of the a priori is that it distinguishes two very different approaches to the relationship between the mind and the world. It distinguishes ...

The IEP article on A Priori and A Posteriori writes: An a priori concept is one that can be acquired independently of experience, which may – but need...

Yes, every source is open to doubt, even the SEP, which is the premier reference work in philosophy. We know it is the premier work in philosophy beca...

As with most sources, whether Fox or CNN, whether the BBC or Talk TV, one has to make a personal judgement as to whether the source makes a logical an...

The SEP article on Kant’s Transcendental Arguments, section 3, shows that Kant is still relevant today. Kant-inspired transcendental arguments against...

I would say that the biggest pitfall is reading it in isolation of secondary sources, which might include: IEP - Immanuel Kant: Logic He insists that ...

Of course, sensations in the mind are caused by things in the world. Au revoir.

Exactly, the object perceived in the mind is not of necessity the same object in the world causing the perception. Knowledge of the phenomena does not...

1) When we perceive the colour red, the colour red doesn't exist in the world, what exists in the world is a wavelength of 700nm. 2) When we perceive ...

I am using the Cambridge Edition, translated and edited by Guyer and Wood, which includes the first and second editions.

What does it mean that we have an a priori pure intuition of space As with the colour red, where we have the innate ability to perceive the colour red...

Kant in his Prolegomena made clear that he believed space is empirically real In the Introduction to CPR by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood is the statem...

The poster presents their own opinions as to both the primary and secondary sources The OP of this Thread suggests a reading group of the CPR, reading...

I agree, otherwise Kant's Transcendental Idealism would just be a Berkeleyan or Phenomenalist idealism. ==============================================...

To reinstate a scientific metaphysics in place of traditional metaphysics, from his position as Scientific Realist. Introduction to CPR - Kant's posit...

Space allows me to compare sizes. For example, the distance between the two sides of a garden bucket is less that the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy...

I agree that it would be impossible to talk about things if we denied they could be extended in space, but it is Kant's position that there is in fact...

As you say, Kant wanted to combine the two schools of rationalism and empiricism. However, not to show that Metaphysics is superior to the Natural sci...

I agree that matter and space and time are different kinds of things, in that I can imagine space empty of matter, yet I cannot imagine matter not bei...

Is it the case that for Kant, space and time are empirically real? In the Introduction to CPR by Paul Guyer and Allen W. Wood is the statement that, f...

I'm still interested in Critique of Pure Reason. For Kant, as an Empirical Realist, space and time and the matter within it are empirically real. Howe...

In order to establish what is named today, as I understand it, as Indirect Realism, still not accepted by the Direct Realists after 200 years of debat...

Yes, for Kant, space and time are empirically real, and space and time are pure forms of all intuitions. Introduction to CPR - Kant's thesis that spac...

I agree. =============================================================================== Kant is an idealist in the same sense that an Indirect Realis...

Apart from Kant: A23: Space is not an empirical concept that has been drawn from outer experiences. For in order for certain sensations to be related ...

@"Corvus" @"Wayfarer" The term "Transcendental Idealism" is central to the Critique of Pure Reason In the Conceptual Map of the Critique of Pure Reaso...

In my terms, in my normal waking state when looking at a wavelength of 700nm, my seeing the colour red is not a conscious decision, in that I cannot c...

The word "build" is intended more as a figure of speech than literally. In fact, when you wrote "Machines are built by external agents (namely, humans...

Machines are built by an external agents, who happen to be conscious humans. Humans are built by an external agent, which happens to be an unconscious...

:up: I think that Kant would agree. =============================================================================== :up: Yes, as an Indirect Realist, ...

By "approximation", do you mean that the "soul" can be understood as a figure of speech such as "gravity" can be understood as a figure of speech?

I always suffer when my beliefs turn out to be groundless.

We could be biological machines. Why should the philosophical doctrine of Determinism not be valid? Humans only discovered how to fly 120 years ago. H...

I believe "I saw an Ichthyocentaur in the garden". I reason that my belief was groundless. Could I then not say "I was suffering an illusion"?

Yes, I cannot have an idea without the idea being about something, in that I can have a concrete idea, such as the idea of a house, or I can have an a...

It wouldn't be an illusion if I saw an Ichthyocentaur, but to think that Ichthyocentaurs exist in the world would be an illusion. I agree that for Kan...

Does what we perceive as time and space exist outside our perception of it? I can only see a red postbox because I was born with the innate ability to...

Trying to keep the post relevant to Kant through understanding the word "transcendence". Why cannot abstract reasoning and language be explained withi...

Not really, it depends what the word "direct" is referring to. The Phenomenological Direct Realist would say that they have both a direct perception (...

Yes, as with Chomsky, I believe in a certain amount of Innatism. As the Wikipedia article on Innatism writes: In the philosophy of mind, innatism is t...

In this case, the prefix "in" means "not". Therefore, some people are direct realists, and some people are not-direct realists. The problem is then kn...

Neutral Monism denies the reality of the Earth From the position of Neutral Monism, there is only one substance, elementary particles and elementary f...

Possibly. The Wikipedia article on Direct and Indirect Realism does give alternate names: In the philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, dire...

It come down to definition. Some believe that the world exists in a mind, such as Berkeley, and others believe that there is also a world that exists ...

To my understanding, Kant cannot be described as a Phenomenologist, as phenomena are only one part of his "Transcendental Idealism". As the IEP articl...