Kant, Immanuel
1724-1804
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Importance of Kant
- Kant generated a formal system of philosophy [ epistemology ] for a modern approach to scientific investigation.
Importance of noumenon/phenomenon: PHENOMENALISM.
- Kant correctly observed that we have no direct connection with things that happen outside of us [NOUMENA,plural of NOUMENON].
- We experience qualia, which are perceptual events in our brains, and which are the end result of a number of cascaded neurological processes.
- The QUALE [the singular of qualia] is a PHENOMENON which is associated with a NOUMENON, which is an event that happened "out there".
- We have no DIRECT connection to the NOUMENON.
- We do not observe directly how things behave "out there".
- We observe how PHENOMENA behave within our A PRIORI inner space.
- Thus space and time are properties of our neurological apparatus, rather than actual things "out there".
- The above statements form the basis of the philosophical category of PHENOMENALISM.
Kant and Relativity.
- Einstein saw the importance of Kant's epistemological model, and used it to generate THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS.
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