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>today I will
R E A D T H E F I R S T C R I T I Q U E

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The time is now

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>the dogmatical idealism of Berkeley, who maintains that space, together with all the objects of which it is the inseparable condition, is a thing which is in itself impossible, and that consequently the objects in space are mere products of the imagination [...] is unavoidable, if we regard space as a property of things in themselves; for in that case it is, with all to which it serves as condition, a nonentity. But the foundation for this kind of idealism we have already destroyed in the transcendental aesthetic.

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ask and you shall recieve

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oh boy, here I go readin' C R I T I Q U E O F P U R E R E A S O N again

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also check out picrel and my thread
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Only one reasonable choice…

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The thing in itself, which because it being what it really is is logically prior to our conceptualization of it, can also not be called an unknowable chaos since this would be a subreptive application of the categories of thought to that which we want to know as it is prior to that application. Consequently, it is also not certain whether there IS OR IS NOT a sun, heat, rock, etc., which exists externally. And, according to Kant, it will remain uncertain for the foreseeable future because we do not now at this point in history have the mental capacity to determine whether our subjective categories of thought have an exactly corresponding objective correlate which would allow us to legitimately apply our categories of thought to it since, in that case, the thing in itself would then also have to be a subject (an ego, an I, soul, mind) in some larger sense with same categories of thought as ours: a microcosm to macrocosm relation, or more simply, as above, so below. This being the case, ironically, the best way to arrive at an understanding of objective reality would be by understanding our own selves, the famous injunction: Know Thyself.

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>there is ONLY ONE TRUE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY

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It is probably more than just lacking senses in Kant’s view, he probably thinks we also lack the a priori intuition of 4 dimensional space. Maybe sense capabilities and intuitions go hand in hand, but it is not like we can think of 4 dimensional objects using three dimensional objects as building blocks, your mind just can’t picture it.