It is not that things actively elude our minds, but that our knowledge cannot reach them. Its activity cannot penetrate to the real nature of things, or disturb the serene calm of their essences, the "otium cum dignitate of the thing-in-itself."
We can know only appearances, not the ultimate (which is also the real) nature of things. In Kantian language, our knowledge is only of pheno-mena not of Noumena. § 12. Now, as we have already pointed out il 3~6)» t^^ absurdity of making unknowable realities, the causes of phenomena, it is here merely necess- ary to point out how this assumption, in Kant's special form, is refuted by himself, and contradicts his own clearly enunciated principles.
Kant himself lays great stress on the fact that all the categories or fundamental conceptions of our knowledge have a value and a meaning only relat- ively to the world of our experience, in his own phrase, are '' of Immanent application." Now chief among these categories are the conceptions of Sub-stance and Cause. Hence, on Kant's own showing, the unknowable Noumena can be neither substances nor causes. And yet, unless they are both, we can neither say that they are, nor that they are the causes of phenomena. They are not substances, i.e., they do not exist, they are not causes, i.e., if they did, they would explain nothing. It remains that they are nothing, and that Kant's doctrine of the unknowable Noumena Is a mistake.
That this is so, has been generally admitted by all competent critics of Kant ; but it is astonishing that this result should have led so few of them to question the soundness of the basis from which Kant was able to reach such absurd conclusions.» (Riddles of the sphinx; a study in the philosophy of evolution, Schiller, F. C. S. (Ferdinand Canning Scott), 1864-1937). PocketBook Reader
Just drifting on a very warm day downtown and staying in garden and apartment after errands. I feel electoral violence is in the air. A mood. I have long haul faith in Humanity triumphing but next few years for this to happen is people are organized and do something 5 hours a week.
It is not that things actively elude our minds, but that our knowledge cannot reach them. Its activity cannot penetrate to the real nature of things, or disturb the serene calm of their essences, the "otium cum dignitate of the thing-in-itself."
We can know only appearances, not the ultimate (which is also the real) nature of things. In Kantian language, our knowledge is only of pheno-mena not of Noumena. § 12. Now, as we have already pointed out il 3~6)» t^^ absurdity of making unknowable realities, the causes of phenomena, it is here merely necess- ary to point out how this assumption, in Kant's special form, is refuted by himself, and contradicts his own clearly enunciated principles.
Kant himself lays great stress on the fact that all the categories or fundamental conceptions of our knowledge have a value and a meaning only relat- ively to the world of our experience, in his own phrase, are '' of Immanent application." Now chief among these categories are the conceptions of Sub-stance and Cause. Hence, on Kant's own showing, the unknowable Noumena can be neither substances nor causes. And yet, unless they are both, we can neither say that they are, nor that they are the causes of phenomena. They are not substances, i.e., they do not exist, they are not causes, i.e., if they did, they would explain nothing. It remains that they are nothing, and that Kant's doctrine of the unknowable Noumena Is a mistake.
That this is so, has been generally admitted by all competent critics of Kant ; but it is astonishing that this result should have led so few of them to question the soundness of the basis from which Kant was able to reach such absurd conclusions.» (Riddles of the sphinx; a study in the philosophy of evolution, Schiller, F. C. S. (Ferdinand Canning Scott), 1864-1937). PocketBook Reader
Just drifting on a very warm day downtown and staying in garden and apartment after errands. I feel electoral violence is in the air. A mood. I have long haul faith in Humanity triumphing but next few years for this to happen is people are organized and do something 5 hours a week.