Strawson：The Bounds of sense

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General Review
1 Two Faces of the Critique
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Kinds of world-types of experience
Limits-possible general structure ofexperience-investigation-philosophical undertaking-kant’s job
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A)Kant’s misleading analogy: casual, scientific observation focus on thecondition of experience, that means human constitution-these are matters forempirical of scientific not philosophical investigation-Kant’s awareness of the differences between empirical inquiry and hisfundamental research-but kant laid the analogy between these different works
B)Kant consider his doctrine as explanationof the possibility of knowledge of experience-incoherence in his doctrine andits masks-disentangling between analytical argument and doctrine itself
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A)Separation of these two strands-widerdivision between what remains meaningful and what no longer acceptable
B)Strawson’s tactics to unfold his introductory survey
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Kant’s contrast between philosophy and science, the former should limitsits pretensions
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A)Principle of significance
B)Kant’s relation with empiricist: against transcendent metaphysics,negative conclusion about the impossibility
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A)Positive conclusion: Metaphysics isnatural and inevitable propensity of human reason, which benefits the indefiniteextension of empirical knowledge
But B)illusion arose when the principle wasviolated
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A)There is possibility of form ofscientific metaphysics, positive task
B)Its method: a priori transcendental
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A)Kant close to the classical empiricism(parallelism)
B)The problem of classical empiricism, kantreject its dogma
C)Kant also reject idealism, but he acceptit as methodological starting point
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Inner harmony of these themes
A)Kant don’t belong to empiricist philosophy
B)General structure of ideas andprinciples-structure and workings of the cognitive capacities-nature of ourfaculties
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A)Kant’duality: general concepts and particular instances
B)Relation between them: to recognize itemas possessing some general characteristics-general concepts-recognitionalabilities-material-particular instances-intuition
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Kant’idioms
receptive faculty of sensibility-intuition
active faculty of understanding-concepts
space and time, form of sensibility
self conscious awareness-satisfaction ofits own requirement
applicability of notion-application ofcertain very general notions(categories)