PHIL2505 - Concept Intuition
CONCEPT_ INTUITION RELATION (from last week)
Intuition does not deliver us 'subject formation'
-> is a disparate flow of unconceptualised sensory data
It is concept that is our faculty to distinguish objects between others -> concrete 'sense' of the world
without concept PPL cannot discriminate from the representation of the object and the object itself.
-> bound to the mental sphere
EMPIRICISM = source of concept within (bottle) OBJECT
=> causal (intuition causes concept)
KANT = source of concept within mind
=> cognition
-> bound to human judgement
EG. People produce a representation of the MAPLE LEAF inferring CANADA...while the object itself (the MAPLE LEAF) does not intrinsically produce a representation of CANADA
Categories of thought are organise such that we can have judgements
TRANS ANALYTICthis is concerned with the conceptual conditions of the possibility of experience.
+ Logic of Truth: because the condition it articulates are those conditions under which it is possible to have true judgement.
TRANS DIALECTICcritique of old school Metaphysics - a dead end enquiry
NO TRUTH claims due to lack of intuition
+ The limit of cognition? perhaps
Reason of Illusion1. INTELLECTUAL CONDITION OF KNOWLEDGE: Categories of the Understanding
Objective Reality => we actually make judgements in this way.
'clue to the discovery of all the pure concepts of the understanding'
CLAIM:
1- to have identified the categories of the understanding
2- these are pure concepts, ie. that they have their basis solely in the understanding/intellect
KANT's principle to identify categories of the understanding:
->
character of human judgementCategories-
articulate a core structure that allows us to judge
concepts @ the basis of cognition -> reached by categories of judgment
Concepts are the predicate of possible judgements
-> it is the relationship our minds draws betweeen substantial objects and concepts that allow us to judge.
*Concepts functioning as universals allow us to compare objects
CATEGORIES are self-organised by the judgements within our
mindedness-> purpose to provide an Architectonic Map of how we judge objects.
NEED synthesising condition/process to combine intuition and concepts
-> thus to create experience
2. THE PROBLEM OF THE TRANS DEDUCTION
1) quid juris - right
2) quid facti - fact
The necessity of the relationship between the series events are bound up with causality, which is to be found independant of experience (it is not found in the object)
3. THE TRANS UNITY OF APPERCEPTION
The subject of experience.
KANT's
unified selfWhat is the condition for the possibility of representing a subject, assuming no such self can be given as an object of experience? This is why KANT claims that the transcendental unity of apperception is analytic as it cannot have an untuition of itself.
"The I think..." [B131-2]
For singular representations to have any meaning they have a pre-requisite 'mine'.
-> my representation
CLAIMS:
1) That we dont self-consciously attach the 'I' to our repesentations - tacit
2) Must {think/aware the representation as REPRESENTATION
CARTESIAN link:
assumed unified self
-> DESCARTE does not analyse
_because we have no intuition of it (i)...thus it is illusory reason to
inquire[B 275]
KANT: establishes my existance thru the existance of objects that are outside of me. (link to Heidegger?)
[B 404-28]
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