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Space and Incongruence - The Origin of Kant's Idealism (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
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Space and Incongruence - The Origin of Kant's Idealism (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 21
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Kantian transcendental idealism is the thesis that fundamental
aspects of experience are contributed by the perceiving subject
rather than by the things experienced, and are not features of
things as they exist independently of sensible perceivers. This is
undoubtedly the most striking and at the same time the most
puzzling of Kant's Critical views. It is striking because nothing
could be less commonsensical than the beliefthat things as we
perceive them have nothing in common with things as they are
independently ofbeing per ceived. From a more technical point of
viewthe doctrine is puzzling because Kant apparently does not
support it very well. Beginning with Kant's con temporaries,
critics have pointed out that among all the arguments for the
theory in the CritiqueofPureReason, none entails the conclusion
that things in themselves cannot be like objects of sense
experience in any way. So, for example, although transcendental
idealism is compatible with Kant's theory of synthetic a priori
knowledge, there is nothing in the analysis of the syn thetic a
priori ruling out the possibility that features contributed to
experi ence by the perceiving subject correspond to characteristics
of things in them selves, although we might never know this to be
so. And even though Kant sees transcendental idealism as a solution
to the Antinomies, this is at best indirect support for the
view;there are undoubtedly other ways to get around these
traditional metaphysical puzzles."
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