Kant, Non-Conceptual Content and the Representation of Space.
The article reports on the philosophies of Immanuel Kant regarding perception and the representation of space. Kant believes that space is the a priori basis for human beings' outer intuition. A priori is knowledge which is known without experience. Kant's philosophy of perception is that human bein...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the History of Philosophy Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 383 - 414 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jul2009
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| Sumario: | The article reports on the philosophies of Immanuel Kant regarding perception and the representation of space. Kant believes that space is the a priori basis for human beings' outer intuition. A priori is knowledge which is known without experience. Kant's philosophy of perception is that human beings are not perceiving things independently of applying concepts to those particular things. Space, according to Kant, is a condition where human beings are perceptually presented with outer entities represented spatially. |
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