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Immanuel Kant vs. René Descartes

Theory & Philosophy

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The Limits of Experience

Kant suggests that first phenomenal experience is enough to point us into new and interesting directions. He contrasts this with transcendental realism, where space and time exist out there but are just sensible objects or forms of our intuition. For Kant, we can't be sure all people would have the same possible understanding of them. But you aren't born needing to learn about space and time,. You have a unique capacity, like babies with object permanence, of knowing when an object moves. Something moving through space has to always happen in time.

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