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Relation between Unity of Apperception and judgements in Kant
Apperception (self-consciousness), in its pure form, consists of two sides: the analytic unity of apperception (AUA) — the "I think" —, and the synthetic unity of apperception (SUA). SUA can ...
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Relation between Unity of Apperception and judgements in Kant
Apperception is one of Kant’s basic technical terms. The term is introduced in Critique of pure Reason (CpR), Section: Transcendental Analytic, B131:
It must be possible for the I think to accompany ...
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Relation between Unity of Apperception and judgements in Kant
The eventual application of the analogies of experience requires that we represent objects themselves as organized into subsistent, conditional, and disjunctive systems. But to say that there is e.g. ...
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a Solution to The Problem Of Casuality and Thing-in-Themselves (Problem of Affection)
I don't exactly know how you are using the term, but it's weird to say that our mind has access to the thing in itself since it is, by definition, something unrepresentable, i.e., something that can ...
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a Solution to The Problem Of Casuality and Thing-in-Themselves (Problem of Affection)
I think you're right. Let's say something bumps your hand in the dark. The sensation is processed unconsciously, so a priori as far as conscious apperception is concerned. You already have the idea ...
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Kant: Sensibility
The (heterogeneous) manifold of sensations originally given in what Kant calls the synopsis of sense is neither spatial nor temporal, so it's wrong to say that "these sensations are still ...
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What does "categorical" mean for Kant?
An easy way to approach this question is to see that the term 'categorical' in this usage effectively means 'necessarily applying to all members of a category'. For example, the category 'triangle' ...
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What does "categorical" mean for Kant?
The second formulation of the categorical imperative is, in modern terms, the "dual" of the classical (Aristotelian/scholastic) notion of substance in terms of the categorical relation in ...
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How can Hegel call philosophy a science?
I have not read the book by Gardner but the way you (or the author of the book) formulated this thesis is wrong. Yes, Hegel always loved the idea of science, rationality and logic, and he did claim ...
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What are the conclusions in Kant or Hegel that we can take to the bank?
From Kant: that the existence of an objective thing is the observer's synthesis of idea and perception, and no more. E.g. from Heidegger's Basic Problems of Phenomenology, page 40:
In the proposition ...
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What does "categorical" mean for Kant?
Kant uses the adjective “categorical” as a technical term. It means “without restrictions, not depending on precondition”. The best know example is the term “Categorical Imperative”. For an ...
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Have the inventors of LLMs/image-generators/w/e fulfilled Kant's assertion about the "art" of the productive imagination?
Answering the direct question – can ML models learn how to schematize their inputs and do they use that information to classify specific instantiations of 'categories' – I think that the answer is yes....
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Have the inventors of LLMs/image-generators/w/e fulfilled Kant's assertion about the "art" of the productive imagination?
Much like "intelligence", "imagination" is poorly defined, and what we've been able to achieve with AI has challenged our understanding of both concepts. The most tenable position ...
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Have the inventors of LLMs/image-generators/w/e fulfilled Kant's assertion about the "art" of the productive imagination?
Yeah, Kant talked about how people can think of things they've never seen, like a perfect circle. This is called "productive imagination."
AI can do some similar things:
Make new text and ...
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Given there are many relevant act descriptions, how can anyone obey the moral law?
The linked to post etc. is based in the claim that universalisation is not of our actual motives, and it does not produce rules that hold with absolute necessity.
Instead, universalisation gives us ...
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What's the relationship between good will and duty?
To explore the intricate relationship between good will and duty as elucidated by Immanuel Kant in his seminal work "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals," it is crucial to delve into ...
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Given there are many relevant act descriptions, how can anyone obey the moral law?
Conifold solved the problem so brilliantly that no one bothers to add a discursive answer. I'll try to do it. Apart from noting that there are good answers to the very same questions in Answer 1 and ...
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is there any inconsistancy if i claim thing-in-itselmselves are giving our mind "causality"?
OP: can't we just say, thing-in-itself gives us "causality" in our mind, because "causality" is a property of thing-in-itself, itself?
This is what Heidegger draws together in The ...
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Kant's transcendental apperception and 'ipseity' in phenomenology
Spoiler: I'll provoke the philosophers of the group by recognizing that this clever question of Bird wakes up a controversy about covert mysticism in Kant. The brilliant and subtle way Kant reconciles ...
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is there any inconsistancy if i claim thing-in-itselmselves are giving our mind "causality"?
Your hypothesis is based on the lack of a clear set of arguments for the origin of categories, so you assume that "the thing itself endows our brain with causal relationships", which is ...
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is there any inconsistancy if i claim thing-in-itselmselves are giving our mind "causality"?
There are many issues to debate here and apparently Parsa Fakhar disagrees with Kant on some fundamental points in the enlightened dialog with Conifold on the comments, despite his question being ...
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How Kant's second formulation of the categorical imperative interacts with consent
To understand how Kant addresses the balance between the drive for happiness and the moral law in the "Critique of Practical Reason," especially in relation to passages from 5:22-23, we need ...
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Kant acknowledges physical needs as well as moral law, but has he adequately explained why one should win out over the other?
To understand how Kant addresses the balance between the drive for happiness and the moral law in the "Critique of Practical Reason," especially in relation to passages from 5:22-23, we need ...
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Confusion surrounding Kant's argument from geometry (Transcendental exposition of the concept of space)
Your question touches on a crucial aspect of Kant's philosophy in the "Critique of Pure Reason," specifically the nature of space as an intuition rather than a concept. Let's unpack this ...
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What did Kant mean when he said that phoronomically motion is subjective but dynamically objective?
Let us divide the answer in three parts: 1) Differentiation between pheronomical and dynamical, 2) Exploration of this text and 3) Problematization of the pheronomical differentiation.
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