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?

Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason

Evidence-backed account

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

Open evidence

This is an evidence-linked editorial paraphrase, not a direct quotation.

Kant's Transcendental Idealism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: Introduction; §1 Appearances and Things in Themselves
Open source

Whether appearances and things in themselves are two kinds of object or two standpoints on one object remains a central unresolved interpretive dispute.

Open evidence

This is an evidence-linked editorial paraphrase, not a direct quotation.

Kant's Transcendental Idealism
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4 The Dual Aspect View; §5 One Object or Two?
Open source

Return to the full question