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Single Idea 16923
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism
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Full Idea
I do indeed admit that there are bodies outside us.
Gist of Idea
I admit there are bodies outside us
Source
Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 289 n.II)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.45
A Reaction
This is the end of a passage in which Kant very explicitly denies being an idealist. Of course, he says we can only know the representations of things, and not how they are in themselves.
The
27 ideas
from 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic'
16926
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Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject
[Kant]
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16927
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Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject
[Kant]
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16928
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Mathematics cannot be empirical because it is necessary, and that has to be a priori
[Kant]
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16929
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7+5 = 12 is not analytic, because no analysis of 7+5 will reveal the concept of 12
[Kant]
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16930
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Geometry is not analytic, because a line's being 'straight' is a quality
[Kant]
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16931
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Metaphysics is generating a priori knowledge by intuition and concepts, leading to the synthetic
[Kant]
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16910
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Mathematics can only start from an a priori intuition which is not empirical but pure
[Kant]
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16911
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Intuition is a representation that depends on the presence of the object
[Kant]
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16912
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Some concepts can be made a priori, which are general thoughts of objects, like quantity or cause
[Kant]
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16913
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I can't intuit a present thing in itself, because the properties can't enter my representations
[Kant]
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16916
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A priori synthetic knowledge is only of appearances, not of things in themselves
[Kant]
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16915
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A priori intuitions can only concern the objects of our senses
[Kant]
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16914
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A priori intuition of objects is only possible by containing the form of my sensibility
[Kant]
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16917
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All necessary mathematical judgements are based on intuitions of space and time
[Kant]
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16921
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If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left
[Kant]
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16919
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Geometry rests on our intuition of space
[Kant]
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16918
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Mathematics cannot proceed just by the analysis of concepts
[Kant]
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16920
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Numbers are formed by addition of units in time
[Kant]
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16922
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Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles
[Kant]
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16923
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I admit there are bodies outside us
[Kant]
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16924
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I count the primary features of things (as well as the secondary ones) as mere appearances
[Kant]
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21447
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I can make no sense of the red experience being similar to the quality in the object
[Kant]
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16925
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Appearance gives truth, as long as it is only used within experience
[Kant]
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11833
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The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us
[Kant]
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21441
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'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience
[Kant]
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21955
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My dogmatic slumber was first interrupted by David Hume
[Kant]
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21957
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'Transcendental' concerns how we know, rather than what we know
[Kant]
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