PHIL2505 - Phenomena Noumena INTUITIONS of SPACE & TIME...give oppurtinity to recognise objectd existence
=> data organised within SPACE & TIME

CONCEPTS (12 categories)

Applications of categories allows the form of concepts.
=> allow for judgements

TRANSCENDENTAL APPERCEPTION
Underlying unity of concepts
=> "I think" = perspective of self
-> single 'i' = one unifying self

EMPIRICAL APPERCEPTION
The consciousness one has of all experience
=> all data and categories recieved in consciousness

DISTINCTION BETWEEN NOUMENA AND PHENOMENA
'land of truth' (B294-295)

cannot have determinate knowledge outside of experience - because their is nothing to attach categories

'i' is the subject of thought
-> it cannot be the object - because the is no content
-> no experience of the 'i' - we cannot experience ourselves

DO NOT PERCIEVE...
SPACE
TIME
I
...these are conditions of experience...we must have them in order to experience something!

Concepts must relate to intuitions to have determinate truth...REFER TO (B298)

TRANSCENDENTAL SCHEMA (B176-187)
General rules to apply to categories.
*Schema of substance
- permanance in time
*Schema of causation
- succession in time
...so on and so forth for all 12 categories

CATEGORIES AS FORM OF THOUGHT
* Categories only provide the thought of an object
-> provides unity

* Categories cannot determine what objects are
-> real intuition

* The bare concept of an object in general is the' transcendental object = X'
(A250) - relation between categories - bare (transc) concept amd how the concept is filled in and related to the world.

PHENOMENA AND NOUMENA

because categories are not intuitions (need intuitions to know NOT to think/speculate) ~> forms of thought.

+ Phenomena: raw material given to us via sensible intuitions
- that which we have determined as an object of experience we have attached a concept

+ Noumena: objects that are thought by the understanding alone.
- indeterminate thought/concept of an object

because their is no sensory data given to me...
NO KNOWLEDGE - therefore noumena is not the transcendental object.
-> noumena is the concept of an object as it is, in itself, independant of all possible emperical content.

Noumena is NOT the the-thing-in-itself
-> noumena is the thought of an object engendered by the subject
(B303-307)

NOUMENON (B307)
* Negative Definition: as an object that does not conform to sensible intuition
-> thus noumenon is not an object to which we can apply the categories

If we understand an object of a non-sensible intuition as immediate knowledge than we gain some hint as to the nature of noumenon.

* Positive Definition: as an object that is immediately accessable to an intellectual individual (perhaps god), which is in no way dependant on sensibility. The noumenon is that which such an intellectual intuition can 'know', and immediately so, whereas WE can only 'think'.
-> the point of the creation of the thing-in-itself

THINKING THE NOUMENON AS PROBLEMATIC YET NECESSARY

Use; to classify determinate from indeterminate knowledge
-> as a limiting concept
=> to curb the pretentions of experience
(B311)
In the denial of things, i deny the appearance of these things...perhaps not the actuality/existence of the thing.

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