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I thank everyone for their replies. I understand what Kant said; it's the details I struggle with. I also understand enough of the mathematics: that’s not my problem. Kant’s philosophy influenced a few practical advances which interest me: 1. Jakob von Uexküll and the biological concept of Umwelt. 2...

HexHammer wrote: ↑Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:34 am 99.999% of what Kant said is outdated and has ZERO relevance, only clueless, ignorant and low IQ people would ever waste time on outdated philosophy! Sorry to wake you up!

Thank you for your well reasoned argument.

Impenitent wrote: the irremovable goggles are not sensed Thanks for the reply. Since I'm not versed in philosophical terminology I have to guess that this refers to my wording So isn't Kant saying we born with a sense of space and time... . I get why you say that, but I'm not certain how I'd say it ...

I'm not a philosopher, but I keep bumping into philosophical questions. I'm interested in Kant's notion that we interpret the world in terms of space and time because these are synthetic a priori (not analytical a priori). To be more precise I'm interested in the arguments against this viewpoint bas...