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Perspective voyage · 1781

Kant — The experienced world and things in themselves

If space and time are forms of our experience, are they a veil over reality or the conditions that make knowledge possible?

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Kant treats space and time as forms of human sensible intuition rather than properties of things in themselves, calling spatiotemporal objects appearances.

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  • Kant's Transcendental Idealism

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: Introduction; §1 Appearances and Things in Themselves

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1781 CE · 1781

The first Critique redraws the limits of reality as it can be experienced.

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