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Full Idea
The objective validity of the categories, as a priori concepts, rests on the fact that through them alone is experience possible.
Gist of Idea
The categories are objectively valid, because they make experience possible
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B126/A93)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.224
A Reaction
The human mind is clearly a sort of database, with a flexible structure, but the grounding of it has to be innate, and a priori additions are made at an early stage. I take the categories to be the basic folders of the database, but they may be cultural.
| 21759 | Kant deduced the categories from our judgements, and then as preconditions of experience [Kant, by Houlgate] |
| 19655 | Kant says we can describe the categories of thought, but Hegel claims to deduce them [Kant, by Meillassoux] |
| 5544 | Four groups of categories of concept: Quantity, Quality, Relation and Modality [Kant] |
| 5547 | The categories are objectively valid, because they make experience possible [Kant] |
| 5552 | Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances [Kant] |
| 21986 | Hegel's system has a vast number of basic concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW] |