Full Idea
It is unclear whether Kant says the mind imposes space and time and categories, such as substance and cause and effect, on empirical objects, or whether our mind restricts our cognition to such features of noumenal objects. Imposition, say the majority.
Gist of Idea
Does Kant say the mind imposes categories, or that it restricts us to them?
Source
comment on Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Mark Rowlands - Externalism Ch.3
Book Reference
Rowlands,Mark: 'Externalism' [Acumen 2003], p.36
A Reaction
Rowlands says, rightly, that Kant probably thought the mind imposed categories, but that he should have said that it restricts us to them. The imposition view leads to idealism, anti-realism and madness; restriction is common sense, really.