A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism

After all, what are thoughts if not reactions to stimuli, whether direct or otherwise? Aren’t even our most abstract deliberations—even something as ephemeral as mental arithmetic—built on a foundation of reasoning acquired through years of experience navigating physical spaces? No matter how sophisticated our minds may be, there’s little going on

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La première, et sans doute la plus commune, est la route du constructivisme extrême - c'est la version forte du « non donné d'avance ». C'est-à-dire que les visions du monde n'étant pas données d'avance, vous pouvez prétendre qu'elles sont toutes arbitraires. Elles sont simplement « construites » par des cultures sur la base de quelque chose qui n'

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Kant, like Berkeley, believes that our perceptions, not things-in-themselves, are the only things we experience directly. “…everything intuited in space and time, all objects of a possible experience, are nothing but phenomena, that is, mere representations; and that these, as presented to us…have no self-subsistent existence apart from human thoug

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Transcendental knowledge is that which, going beyond the boundary of possible experience, endeavours to determine the nature of things as they are in themselves; while immanent knowledge keeps itself within the boundary of possible experience, therefore it can only apply to phenomena. As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. B

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