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PREMIUM-Episode 19: Kant: What Can We Know?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Is There Such a Thing as Causality?

Kant said that sensibility gives us a priori necessary knowledge of time and space the way they are. This is his equivalent to what hume called impressions, right? The sensibility just the raw sense data that is coming at you, which are just unconnected images or whatever. As long as you with sensibility, so this part of the mind that really has to do with how the senses are constructed. And he's even more specific than that, because space only applies to things in outer sense, whereas time applies to your reflections and your own thoughts as well. In the same way that causality can't come in intuitively, can't be sucked in through the senses,

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