PHILOS 178 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Certain General, A Priori And A Posteriori, Purea
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Cr: certain general features of our representations of objects conform to certain general characteristics of our cognitive faculties. (more benign than below, because it talks about representations, not objects themselves. ) Co: certain general features of the objects represented conform to certain general char- acteristics of our cognitive capacities. (this is kant"s idealism in a strong sense. Objects correspond to general features of our representations due to the character of our cognitive faculties. Says this of objects out there are the way they are because of the way we are. ) Kant seems to be committed to cr and co. must be some kind of natural correspondence (co). This is how we correctly represent the world. Kant is trying to explain the possibility of metaphysical knowledge. Metaphysical claims hold because of the character of our cognitive capacities. Objects of knowledge are never to be idnti ed with illusion.
