How does Kant bridge the gap between the rationalist and the

The rationalist point of view stemmed from Plato, and was acclaimed by many other great philosophers such as Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. They believed that reason alone is the ultimate source of knowledge. They believed that all truths could be obtained through a prior knowledge, or innate knowledge. They felt that the world of sense experience is not the real world at all. The only way to see true reality is through reason. A prior defines faculty.

The Empiricist point of view claims knowledge depends on sense experience. After advances in science, particularly Newton’s success in physics, philosophers such as Lock and Hume gained increasing potency to their empirical beliefs. They believed science is the most concrete tool for discerning the intricacies of knowledge. Kant

Knowing this, we can paint a picture of sensations turning into “sense.” It starts with things in themselves. These are objects without sense experience. From here, the things in and of themselves impinge upon the mind. As this happens, the mind categorizes the sensation by giving time, space, and various different qualities (unity, plurality, totality, community, substance, limitation, ect. See, TT of the PC of the U). This is the process of making sense of our sense experiences. The mind is like a computer program, methodical and categorical.

Until Kant, it was understood that our knowledge must conform to the objects in which we perceive. However, Kant postulated that all objects must conform to our knowledge. This was a huge breakthrough in our pursuit of understanding and knowledge.

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