Friday, March 13, 2026

Kantian notes

Schematism involves the concepts of  'rule' and  'time',  the realization of a pure concept of the understanding. How can we understand this but as computation ?

The difference between thinking something and knowing something. How can we explain this ?

The ideas of reason as ideal, completed totalities (the unconditioned). There is a largest set, because we can think of the set of all things and thus everything will belong to it. On the other hand if there is a set containing all things then this set itself must belong to it and as such will no longer be the largest set. Thus there is no largest set. Kant's anticipation of Russell's paradox. Kant is finistic and intuitionistic somewhat like Brouwer with his theory of choice-sequences.

The ideas of reason organize and give a direction to philosophy and science but they are also the foundation of practical morality. As we wrote previously: intelligence and morality are one.

In the transcendental dialectic in some cases Kant states that both opposing propositions are false in other cases that they are both true - this recalls the Buddhist tetralemma.

Reason as the intelligible character, the noumenic source of freedom. 

Kant seems to be saying that the phenomenal self and the phenomenal world are mutually dependent and relative. 

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Kantian notes

Schematism involves the concepts of  'rule' and  'time',  the realization of a pure concept of the understanding. How can we...