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Posted: 28 Aug 2022

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Das Ding an sich / "A priori"

Das Ding an sich / "A priori"
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The synthetic ‘a priori’ was Immanuel Kant’s term for the preconditions for knowledge that we cannot get rid of. Kant revolutionized philosophy in the 1700s by pointing out that human knowledge must necessarily have certain preconditions, certain ‘a priori’, that precede experience, such as time, place, and causation. Without such preconditions we cannot know everything at all, but when we have them, we do not know the world itself; we know a world seen through the spectacles the ‘a priori’ constitute. We can never know the world as it is, know only the world as it is for us. So Kant distinguished between things as they are, ‘Das Ding an sick,’ and the thing as we know then, ‘Das Ding fur uns’. ~ Page 192
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