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" what do we know ? " and " how do we know it ? ".
kant approaches the questions by looking at the relationship between knowledge based on reason (what we know purely logically, prior to or independently of experience, or a priori) and knowledge based on experience (what we know based on the input of our senses or a posteriori).
things as they are "in themselves" are unknowable. for something to become an object of knowledge, it must be experienced, and experience is prestructured by the activity of our own minds . we are never passive observers or knowers. in kant's words, "thoughts without content [are] empty, and intuitions without concepts [are] blind".
tomorrow i will finish my earlier post, "what is seeing ?..." by, what i see from that technically poor picture ...
posted by wildpic at 10:37 PM
7 Comments:
u have a nice blog...
i wished i could post like u .. taking pictures and writing about it.. or stuffs connected to it..
keep up the good work...
=)
Suresh, 95% of what I know has no connection with experience.
Most of it is useless, and yet I need it. Its important to me.
Knowledge makes me aware of my ignorance. I want to know how much I do not know, I have said that in some blog of mine.
Nothing is unknowable.
Mystries will unfold as we go on.
only 4% of our brain has been put into use. Next generation will have 4.00000000001%
Suresh please adopt straight line thinking and put your thoughts in your own words in plain simple language
hello klsz ... thanks very much.
thanks for dropping by and u can do a much better job that what am doing, its all out there ... wish u all the best ! take care !
yes rauf, there is direct experience and the other is indirect experience, both needs constant updating since all truths have a shelf life and due to the variables in any experience.
'nothing is unknowable' ? dont know about that.
i feel straight line thinking has lost its linear directions, am trying my best to define that.
hi kathy, thanks for dropping by. hope to see u again.
Looks like an abstract photo...a first for me...what is it ?
jorge, its an eucalyptus (native to australia) tree trunk. this one is growing in the anamalai rain forests, planted some 50 odd years back for a seed collection program.
used to park my jeep underneath it and have branches fall on it all the time. its also called a 'widow maker' killed many people in the aussie bush land while they were camping under it !.
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