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    Kantian Formalism
    "instead of the mind having to conform to what can be known, what can be known must conform to the mind." Immanual Kant

    Tue, Apr 24, 2007  Permanent link
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    folkert     Wed, Apr 25, 2007  Permanent link
    Wow...that is a hard (and multi-interpretable) one. I just read in Wikipedia's Critique of Pure Reason that "this takes into account the position of the knower of the world in general and reveals its impact on the structure of his known world." (Just like "Copernicus revolutionized astronomy by changing the point of view and taking the position of the observer into account")

    He goes on to ask "...is there any knowledge that is independent of experience and even of all impressions of the senses... ?"

    I think he is saying that it is impossible to know reality as it is.
    "What can be known must conform to the mind".

    I am going to have to agree with that, obviously.

    We are just some crazy, meat-based creature with the beginnings of some sort of rudimentary consciousness trying to figure out what the hell is going on while hunting for food and trying not to get hunted for food. Our version of reality surely has nothing to do with what it really is.
    folkert     Wed, Apr 25, 2007  Permanent link
    I just wrote something kind of related to this.
    cupcakewizard     Thu, Apr 26, 2007  Permanent link
    Yes! Agreed. He refers to the phenomenal as how we experience the world and the noumenol as how the world actually exists ("outside of our experience" as you said).
     
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