Talk:Critique of Pure Reason
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Shouldn't "Objects are given to use through intuition" read "Objects are given to us through intuition"? --FePe
I will be adding more stuff, piece by piece, as I figure things out and find the time to do this. Any feedback will be appreciated. --Michael V
Michael -- I know I said I would help out over a month ago, but I had my senior thesis to finish. It's done now, and I'd love to help out. What needs doing here? — Adam Conover † 22:00, May 9, 2004 (UTC)
Edward G. Nilges has changed the editable section on Transcendental Aesthetic. Kant did not believe that the forms of sensation exist "in the mind" and in fact distinguishes mental images from the preconditions of perception.
I have also clarified how and in what way Kant invents, uses and even, to many, misuses terms of art including "transcendental aesthetic".
If I could, I would remove the claim that Kant prefigured the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. While Heisenberg probably read Kant in school (and was probably bored out of his skull), Heisenberg wasn't thinking about Kant when he invented the Principle.
The fact that there is no sensible perceptions without preconditions has nothing whatsoever to do with physics and a strict reading of the Kritik der Reinen etcetera gives us NO license for saying that the position and momentum of things "in themselves" is changed by observation. Whereas Heisenberg meant his UP to be a claim about things in themselves. 61.144.207.173 (Talk | contribs), Jan. 14, 2004
- I would say you've misunderstood Kant and Heisenberg, and the concept of the thing-in-itself. SlimVirgin 06:37, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
Kant, of course, can coexist, uneasily in an armed truce, with modern physics, perhaps by considering that Kant's ontology is logically prior, in the sense that it is meant to survive fundamental changes, either in the physical world or our knowledge of same. But one clause of such a truce should be an agreement not to cross the DMZ, and I'm afraid the author violated this by saying that Kant invented the UP.
As to Wittgenstein, he had a tendency to try to shock sensitive Cantabrigian playing-field beauties by reinventing Continental philosophy in the UK. As such, Wittgenstein was, in the Philosophical Investigations, trying to make his way back to a pre-existing and largely Kantian tradition after imprisoning himself in the Tractatus, which stunt he performed in an Italian prison-camp, which just goes to show you. For this reason, I find the reference to Wittgenstein TOTALLY gratuitous nonsense which slyly implies that the only use for Continental philosophy is as a minor "swot" for Anglo American philosophers, and to build better, if Uncertain, bombs.
I would have rather seen an account of a tradition, that of both Continental and, in America, feminist, philosophy, which is outlasting "analytic" and "ordinary language" philosophy taken together. But I see no Edit button. Therefore, the article is safe from me, for now. 61.144.207.173 (Talk | contribs), Jan. 14, 2004
