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Critical Treatise · German

Critique of Pure Reason

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

OPEN THE BOOK WITH A QUESTION

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 — The experienced world and things in themselves

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

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    • Kant's Transcendental Idealism

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4 The Dual Aspect View; §5 One Object or Two?

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  1. 1781

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

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