PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Dialectic, Ob River
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[1] in part three kant introduces the third and nal human cognitive faculty alongside sen- sibility and understanding: the faculty of reason. On the one hand, reason corresponds to the discursive abilities and capacities of the mind, the power each mind has to string together judgments and draw conclusions. Kant identi es this, predictably, with the capacity to argue syllogistically. But consider for a moment the mess that reason gets into when it tries to answer the question. Once you ask the question, you have no equipment with which to answer it except the notions of substance-attribute, cause-effect, and the like. Thus we persistently try to answer the question what are things like in themselves? in terms that properly apply only to things as they are experienced. So there is something inherently fouled up in what human reason tries to do.
