On Jun 28, 9:11 am, Georges Metanomski <zg...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Mon, 6/27/11, Lonnie Clay <claylon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant > I quote"Kant asserts that experience is based both upon the perception of > external objects and a priori knowledge.[30] The external world, he writes, > provides those things which we sense. It is our mind, though, that processes > this information about the world and gives it order, allowing us to > comprehend it. Our mind supplies the conditions of space and time to > experience objects. According to the "transcendental unity of apperception", > the concepts of the mind (Understanding) and the perceptions or intuitions > that garner information from phenomena (Sensibility) are synthesized by > comprehension. Without the concepts, intuitions are nondescript; without the > intuitions, concepts are meaningless—thus the famous statement, "Thoughts > without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."[31] > > "Don't see the connection with what I just wrote? > ============ > Sure I see. I see that > > 1.Wikipedia wisdom is as usually that of a kitchen almanac for village > idiots.
Except when it happens to be correct. > > 2.That "Kant's Epistemology" is a wrong title. It should say > "Lonnie's intimate secrets". > > Georges. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to epistemology@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to epistemology+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
