Single Idea 23454

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception]

Full Idea

That which allows the manifold of appearance to be intuited as ordered in certain relations I call the 'form' of appearance.

Gist of Idea

Appearances have a 'form', which indicates a relational order

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B034/A20)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.155


A Reaction

An important idea, which figures prominently in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. Presumably the noumenon is responsible for generating the form in the appearances, and we infer the order of the world thereby (though we can't prove it).