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[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism ]

Full Idea

On the analytic interpretation of Kant (by Strawson) ...the structure of experience ultimately reduces to the structure of what is experienced. ...In the idealist view (of D. Heinrich) experience itself has an inherent structure.

Gist of Idea

For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure

Source

report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Sebastian Gardner - Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason 02 'Interpretations'

Book Ref

Gardner,Sebastian: 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason' [Routledge 1999], p.32


A Reaction

Gardner thinks Strawson has got it wrong, and makes a good case for his view. Strawson's view sounds more like the empiricist view of concepts. I prefer that view, but I doubt whether it is Kant's.


The 23 ideas with the same theme [reality exists with our cognitive structure]:

Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa [Kant, by Feuerbach]
Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism [Kant, by Feuerbach]
For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure [Kant, by Gardner]
The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously [Kant, by Pinkard]
'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]
We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances [Kant]
We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves [Kant]
Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism) [Kant]
I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F]
The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]
Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object [Fichte]
Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW]
We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte]
Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer]
Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself [Schopenhauer]
Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness [Feuerbach]
Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]
Unlike speculative idealism, transcendental idealism assumes the mind is embodied [Meillassoux]