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Kant's Objection To Descartes' Radical Doubt
- Kant objects to Descartes' radical doubt by asking how thought itself would arise in isolation from experience.
- Kant argues thinking depends on learnt language and sensory forms, so you can't cleanly separate mind from the world.
Space And Time As Forms Of Intuition
- Kant introduces transcendental idealism: space and time are forms of our intuition, not properties of things in themselves.
- This makes experience possible but limits us to phenomena; we never access the noumenon directly.
Phenomena Versus The Thing In Itself
- Phenomena are the only aspects of objects we perceive; our senses reveal limited slices like wetness via temperature differences.
- Kant uses examples (dog whistles, wetness) to show sensory limits don't deny external reality.