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Full Idea
Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances.
Gist of Idea
Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B163)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.263
A Reaction
The intriguing word here is 'laws'. Might it be possible to create a new category of the understanding, by taking drugs, or by spectacularly imaginative thought? It all sounds a bit conservative (as Nietzsche suggested - Idea 2859).
Related Idea
Idea 2859 The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient [Nietzsche]
| 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] |