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Single Idea 5603

[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason ]

Full Idea

Pure reason, as a merely intelligible faculty, is not subject to the form of time, and hence not subject to the conditions of the temporal sequence.

Gist of Idea

Pure reason exists outside of time

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B579/A551)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.542


A Reaction

A strong assertion of the notion of 'pure' reason. If it is outside time, it is presumably outside space-time, and so outside space. If I believed in it (and you can't really, can you?), I think I would go the whole hog, and add Platonism.