Atla wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:00 am
Again, Kant should have admitted that we
probably should assume the objective existence of the directly unknowable external world (external to our immediate experiences). Which is the "realist" part.
I am aware from the previous post you have NOT grasp Kant's principles thoroughly.
Kant did state, [paraphrasing],
for any appearance there must be "something that appear" which is unknowable but can be thought only.
Kant wrote:But our further contention must also be duly borne in mind, namely, that though we cannot know these Objects as Things-in-Themselves, we must yet be in position at least to think them as Things-in-Themselves;*
otherwise we should be landed in the absurd conclusion that there can be Appearance without anything that appears. [Bxxvi]
Note this point is in the
Preface.
This is merely a concession Kant made in the earlier part of his CPR to enable the flow to the later phases of the CRP.
Ultimately to Kant [@
page B397], at the very later phase of the CPR there is no independent existence the so-claimed "realist" the insisted upon. These "realists" are merely reifying an illusion due to a 'psychological defect'.
There will therefore be Syllogisms which contain no Empirical premisses, and by means of which we conclude from something which we know* to something else of which we have no Concept,
and to which, owing to an inevitable Illusion, we yet ascribe Objective Reality.
These conclusions {transcendental ideas} are, then, rather to be called pseudo-Rational 2 than Rational,
although in view of their Origin they may well lay claim to the latter title {rational},
since they {conclusions} are not fictitious and have not arisen fortuitously, but have sprung from the very nature of Reason.
They {conclusions} are sophistications not of men but of Pure Reason itself.
Even the wisest of men cannot free himself from them {the illusions}.
After long effort he perhaps succeeds in guarding himself against actual error; but he will never be able to free himself from the Illusion, which unceasingly mocks and torments him.
B397
The delusional thinking is repeated by Kant till the end of the CPR [
with limited exception re morality].
The psychological problem is implied in "which unceasingly mocks and torments him."