PHIL 1000H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Transcendental Idealism, Noumenon, Critical Philosophy

• School: Trent University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000H
• Professor: Mc Dermid

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If kant is right, you cannot know the answer. It is actually the product of thought, because it is the product of thought, nothing is easier to know: the thing in itself is a kind of negation, bare x . Instead of being independent of the mind, it is a product of it. The critical philosophy was what kant used, philosophy begins with an inquiry into our faculties of knowledge. The mind can know appearances, the mind cannot know noumena. We start philosophy with what the mind is fit to know. Sense certainty can give us knowledge of particulars which is immediate and certain. Any particular that i apprehend can only be represented as a this . Sense certainty is supposed to be immediate. A this can be broken down into a now and a here . A now fixes it in time, and a now fixes it in space.