Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to boydstun. It was good to see you! LikeLike

In reply to boydstun. And looking at him from an outside-Kant perspective, I rather think his phenomena (his sense, not Newton’s) are more real than his murky noumena Lol, no argument there! There’s a reason Kant calls himself an idealist, after …

In reply to David Potts. Concerning exist/real, I was looking at “But the intrinsic properties are not real. They do not exist at the objects in the way they appear to.” I agree with your followup; I can’t take ‘exists” or…

In reply to boydstun. I didn’t mean to upset anybody by the word “distort.” And I have no stake in it and might just as well have said “shape.” But really, why isn’t it accurate? According to Kant, the forms of intui…

In reply to David Potts. Kant does not think of noumena as unreal, and he does not think of forms of intuition or the categories of the understanding as distorting something. This much is not an idiosyncratic picture of Critical Kant among contemporary…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Interesting! These papers are paywalled, so I don’t know what these guys have to say. But I would be surprised if either of them simply says that for Kant, there is “causation” in the noumenal world of a kin…

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