Critique of Pure Reason 22 - Triangles all the way down!
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Wow, that was a fantastic discussion. Reading Kant is a combination of confused frustration and exhilaration whenever one achieve an insight, an exhilaration that is compounded by being able to share these experiences with all of you. Somerset Maugham in The Razor's Edge, speaks of the rewards of reading Spinosa. I might well substitute, or at least add, Kant.
"I’ve been reading [Kant] . . . I don’t suppose I understand very much of it yet, but it fills me with exultation. It’s like landing from your plane on a great plateau in the mountains. Solitude, and an air so pure that it goes to your head like wine and you feel like a million dollars.”
CONSIDER FOR NEXT MEETING
How is it that we are so well able to understand nature? How is it that we can scientifically uncover its secrets and rely on everyday experience? It's almost as if nature were made for our understanding, as if our mind were equipped with the tools for such understanding. According to Kant, the key to understanding why our minds are so well adapted for this lies in understanding what it is we see when we see something.
READ FOR NEXT TIME
A DEDUCTION
Sec III: "On the relation of the understanding to objects in general and the possibility of cognizing these a priori."
Sec III : "Summary representation on the correctness of this deduction"
B DEDUCTION
§§15 - 19
A111 - A130 of the A deduction and
B130 - B141 of the B deduction
Guyer, pages 236 - 252
03/01/26 - # 22: Summing up the A deduction
03/15/26 - #23: Starting the B deduction
3/29/26 - #24: Analytic vs Synthetic Unity
WHAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT
See resources below.
RESOURCES
1. Our recent exploration of the transcendence deduction
2. EveryboAn analysis of the term "cognition" based on its usage in the Transcendental Logic..
3. Kant's argument against Newton and Transcendental Idealism