
Ep. 23 - Romanticism
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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Kant's Copernican Revolution: Categories are not actually in the world
The proposal is that the categories or patterns of intelligibility we find in the world, such as mathematical properties, are not actually there. Kant's move is similar to Occam's razor, suggesting that these patterns are not inherent in the world but rather in our minds. Kant argues that mathematical ways of measuring the world are not features of the world itself, but rather the way our minds organize experience to make sense of it.
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