Opus Postumum by Immanuel Kant

Author:Immanuel Kant [Kant, Immanuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780521319287
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Published: 2012-01-30T23:22:43+00:00

IMMANUEL KANT

empirical representations) according to. the principle of experience as a system - hence, according to a priori principles.

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[XIth fascicle, sheet III, page 4]

1 . The appearances of the object of empirical representation, as an a priori intuition in space and time, namely, as the subject is affected by the object.

2. How the subject affects itself in apprehension (in perception as empirical representation with consciousness) into an aggregate of the manifold of sensible representation.

3 · The synthetic unity of the empirical manifold (complexus), as moving forces of the subject, combined in a system.

4· Physics itself, as science according to the principle of the possibility of experience (which is only one). Answer to the question: How is physics possible?

Experience is synthetic unity of empirical representations with consciousness, insofar as they are combined by the understanding to unity

•under a principle.• Experience - the object of perceptions combined in a system of thought - is (just like matter) only one. Not (as in atomism’s account of the object) [put together] •in space• from the full and the void; nor [one experience] separated from another by blind chance (casus purus) in an empty time; for, in that case, nothingness would be an object of possible experience.

The subjective element of empirical intuition, as appearance, is first given.

The composition of its •empirically given• manifold is thought a priori, as to its form - that is, the understanding combines the manifold, according to a principle, into the synthetic unity of the consciousness of the manifold in the object. It does so for the sake of the possibility of experience, as the synthetic unity of perceptions (for the sake of the unity of the system of perceptions - which, thought a priori, is thus made by the understanding).

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Empirical representations with consciousness are merely subjective -

that is, they are not yet representations referred to •an• object. When, however, as impressions, they yield cognitions [Erkenntnisstiicke], they are perceptions of an object - be this an outer object or an inner one.

Empirical representation, thought as the effect of the moving forces, is a concept of the understanding, and not empirical; rather, it is postulated a priori, by physics. Objective.

[Additions above the main text (which occupies the lower third of the page)]

Physics is the principle for representing what is subjective in perceptions (as appearances) as objective - by means of the understanding.

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