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Kant's Theory of Knowledge

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. . .>a priori character, i. e. from the consciousness of necessity involved, it is concluded that the perception of space must be a priori in a new sense, that of taking place before the perception of objects in it.[31] From the fact that we perceive space before we perceive objects in it, and thereby are able to anticipate the spatial relations which condition these objects, it is concluded that space is only a characteristic of our perceiving nature, and consequently that space is a property not of things in themselves, but only of things as perceived by us.[32]

Two points in this argument are, even on the face of it, paradoxical. Firstly, the term a priori, as applied not to geometrical judgements but to the perception of space, is given a temporal sense; it means not something whose validity is independent of experience and which is the manifestation of the nature of the mind, but something which takes place before experience. Secondly, the conclusion is not . . . Read More

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Well worth the time to read. Everyone has a different perspective when it comes to explaining Kant, and this author is no exception.

This author highlights Kant's form of perception of the object as being different from the conception of the subject such that substance includes all of its concepts be