Tag: space
How a trinity is no more absurd than a binity like that of the human hand which has a left and a right version. The difference is that we (as humans) can look at such a binity and see that it makes sense, but we cannot look at a trinity (although some possible exceptions are examined).
Continue September 10, 2015
A very short exposition of how the human is able to recognize the appearances as representations of objects instead of seeing appearances as things on their own as most likely the animals do.
Continue August 7, 2014
A “brief” encapsulation of my current understanding of Kant’s “Anschauung”, equating it with “envisagement” or “looking” or “viewing” or “perspective” or “take” and explaining why I don’t like “intuition”.
Continue February 5, 2012
Another attempt to explain to an educated friend the three “things” of Kant, i.e., the specter/appearance/Erscheinung, the object on its own and the thing on its own (Ding an sich). Or: the sight of an object, the actual object sighted and finally the thing devoid of all predicates of human sighting.
Continue November 10, 2009