The "analogies" and after

Klaus Hartmann

pp. 47-62

in: Lewis White Beck (ed), Proceedings of the Third international Kant congress, Berlin, Springer, 1972

Abstract

In his attempt to account for knowledge, Kant argues that there are two 'strains' of knowledge, intuition and thought. While the former will permit of a priori knowledge in geometry and, possibly, mathematics, an interplay of intuition and concept will provide the a priori framework for experience. This interplay is twofold: since intuition is tied to receptivity, thought has access to intuited objects; the empirical non-emptiness of the a priori framework is guaranteed through sensibility. Intuition also offers a pure ordering of loci, and thus allows for an interplay of pure intuition and concept such that certain a priori constructs, categorized intuitables, can be claimed.

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Kant Immanuel