![]() This is partially what Kant is talking about. What he is pointing out is that there are things that we just can’t psychologically think about or visualize. Here is another point, Rudolph Carnap once said that what is logically possible doesn’t mean that we can think of it. If it can’t, then we don’t experience it. It can only work with those things that those rules can work with. More importantly, the 5 inch circular hole is what constitutes the structure of our mind, and those rules of the mind. ![]() And yet there are other objects that are logically possible and in the external world that wouldn’t be able to get through into the box. This means that only those objects that can fit through the whole, which are logically possible, would get through. We are throwing objects at it, which are logically possible things in the external world. ![]() For example, imagine that you have a box with a 5 inch circular hole in it. But here is the thing, we can only experience those logically possible things in the external world that meet with our internal structure of mind, or the internal rules of how our mind is structured. We don’t directly perceive these things, but our mind creates a representation of it. There is something out there, but with the representational theory, we don’t know exactly what it is. Now, as a basic idea, anything that is logically possible can exist external to our senses and affect our senses. A simple picture can help show the Representational theory of Perception. This external world affects our senses, and we form a representation of what we take this external to be like. Now Kant held that there is a world that is external to us, which is to counter some forms of idealism and especially of that of David Hume who showed that there’s no way we can come to know of it through experience or through thought. For example, Time and Space are those rules that also govern our minds, and these are a priori, and not something that is learned from experience, a posteriori. Now these rules are a priori, which means they aren’t derived from experience. Think of it like a clock that there are certain rules that it follows in order for it to work, or some box that has an internal way in which it works and certain rules that it follows. There are other rules, but that is one of them that he used as an example. This is one of those rules that runs the human mind. What he pointed out was that there are certain, what we can call rules, that govern our mind. ![]() One of the big points that Kant made was about the structure of the Human Mind. The views are presented in his books Critique of Pure Reason and Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics. Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who lived from 1724 to 1804. This blog will be based on what Immanuel Kant had to say about Phenomena and Noumena. ![]()
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