The Constitutive and Regulative Principles in Kant: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy ... (Department or Philosophy) (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Kant is asking in what the certainty of knowledge consists. He assumes that knowledge, when conceived of as the whole of our recorded and present subjective experience, has somewhere a stable point with reference to which changes have significance, and from which progress takes its direction. This point is called the Object, and the certainty of knowledge is established when its relation to the Object is determined. All difficulties which arise in connection with the description of the knowledge process are just questions of the nature of this relation; and they may all be summed up as the problem of the definition of the Object. What constitutes the difficulty in the case of any definition of the Object, is the tendency, on the one hand, to put the definition in terms of our particular subjective experiences, and on the other, to have left as unaccountable a realistic remainder after the subjective definition has been made.

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