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Full Idea
Intuitions which are possible a priori can never concern any other things than objects of our senses.
Gist of Idea
A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses
Source
Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 283)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.38
A Reaction
Given the Kantian idea that what is known a priori will also be necessary, we might have had great hopes for big-time metaphysics, but this idea cuts it down to size. Personally, I don't think we are totally imprisoned in the phenomena.
Related Idea
Idea 16914 A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility [Kant]
1824 | To name something, you must already have an idea of what it is [Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius] |
2191 | Relations of ideas are known by thought, independently from the world [Hume] |
18262 | For Kant analytic knowledge needs complex concepts, but the a priori can rest on the simple [Coffa on Kant] |
5526 | With large numbers it is obvious that we could never find the sum by analysing the concepts [Kant] |
16915 | A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses [Kant] |
4430 | All a priori knowledge deals with the relations of universals [Russell] |
5411 | We can know some general propositions by universals, when no instance can be given [Russell] |
9353 | We explain away a priori knowledge, not as directly empirical, but as indirectly holistically empirical [Devitt] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
12389 | Knowledge is a priori if the experience giving you the concepts thus gives you the knowledge [Kitcher] |
9341 | Meanings and concepts cannot give a priori knowledge, because they may be unacceptable [Horwich] |
9334 | If we stipulate the meaning of 'number' to make Hume's Principle true, we first need Hume's Principle [Horwich] |
2727 | Red and green being exclusive colours seems to be rationally graspable but not analytic [Audi,R] |
2728 | The concepts needed for a priori thought may come from experience [Audi,R] |
17726 | Examining accurate, justified or grounded concepts brings understanding of the world [Jenkins] |