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Posted: 23 Dec 2023

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The structure of the faculty of
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This is a technical way to express Kant’s idea, but the underlying thought is as follows, Considering the human mind – not in connection with any specific sensory experience, but only in relation to the formal structure it has prior to any sensory experience – to be like a computer fresh from the factory, or a car immediately rolling off the assembly line, we have two faculties, the faculty of sensibility and the faculty of intuition, each with its respective formal structure. The structure of sensibility gives us two empty containers, space and time, constituted merely by sets of points that constitute an endless expanse. These forms are empty, like cups without any liquid in them, or sheets of paper with no writing. They are nonetheless constituted by a ‘manifold’, which is a set of points that waits to be filled with sebnsory content and further organized.

Conjoining with space and time, we have the understanding – a complementary faculty of pure concepts that works with sensibility to organize the more specifically configured manifold of space and time, once it receives some sensory information.. . . . Page 69
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