ENGL 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Empirical Evidence
15 Sep 2016
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Systematically argued that aesthetics had no purpose beyond itself, it"s autonomous. Critique of reason: our knowledge cannot transcend experience, but some is not dependent on experience. The only reason x = y is because we"ve seen it again and again, it"s our experience - this does not mean though that there is a causal relation between. Certain things are inherent to the subject and then there are things we learn through our interactions with the world. Empirical knowledge or data acquired by means of the senses. Objects as the appear to us, my understanding of the object is phenomenal. We can"t have a phenomenal experience with something like god become he is intangible. We all have such relations with the world. Objects that we can think of but cannot experience. They are outside of our experience but we can still know them through thinking about them (ex.
