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Single Idea 21956

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

Full Idea

We have proved that everything intuited in space or time, hence all possible objects of experience, are nothing but appearances, mere representations, which ...have outside our thoughts no existence grounded in itself. I call this Transcendental Idealism.

Gist of Idea

Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism)

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B519/A491)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.511

A Reaction

It is only 'transcendental' idealism because it is what can be learned from deconstructing our own cognition, while remaining neutral (I assume) about whether the things-in-themselves are mere ideas. He is notoriousy ambivalent.

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

22012 Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard]
6909 In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa [Kant, by Feuerbach]
6910 Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism [Kant, by Feuerbach]
21440 For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure [Kant, by Gardner]
22006 The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously [Kant, by Pinkard]
21442 'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]
5568 We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances [Kant]
5581 We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves [Kant]
21956 Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism) [Kant]
16923 I admit there are bodies outside us [Kant]
21441 'Transcendental' is not beyond experience, but a prerequisite of experience [Kant]
22068 Poetry is transcendental when it connects the ideal to the real [Schlegel,F]
22015 The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard]
22064 Fichte's logic is much too narrow, and doesn't deduce ethics, art, society or life [Schlegel,F on Fichte]
23241 I am myself, but not the external object; so I only sense myself, and not the object [Fichte]
21973 Fichte believed in things-in-themselves [Fichte, by Moore,AW]
21914 We can deduce experience from self-consciousness, without the thing-in-itself [Fichte]
21919 Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer]
21913 Kant rightly separates appearance and thing-in-itself [Schopenhauer]
6908 Consciousness is absolute reality, and everything exists through consciousness [Feuerbach]
21958 Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]
22049 Transcendental idealism aims to explain objectivity through subjectivity [Bowie]
19651 Unlike speculative idealism, transcendental idealism assumes the mind is embodied [Meillassoux]