Friday, May 16, 2008

PG. 85 KANT CONCLUSION ON DETERMINATION OF THE BOUNDS OF PURE REASON

THE CLEAREST ARGUMENTS HAVING BEENING ADDUCED, IT WOULD BE ABSURD FOR US TO HOPE THAT WE CAN KNOW MORE OF ANY OBJECT THAN BELONGS TO THE POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE OF IT OR LAY CLAIM TO THE LEAST KNOWLEDGE OF HOW ANYTHING NOT ASSUMED TO BE AN OBJECT OF POSSIBLE EXPERIENCE IS DETERMINED ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION THAT IT HAS IN ITSELF.

I think that no one can know exactly what is going to happen in certain things if people do not experience it for themselves. A person can argue that they know what is going to happen or may know some of the possibilities but these are just guesses. For example a person can not know what it is like to be in love without experiencing this emotion for themselves. They can have an educated guess or an idea of how it may feel to be in love from a description but they will never know the true felling until they experience it for themselves.

1 comment:

Chris Alonzo said...

I believe this is very true. You have to experience things first hand to truly know what things are like. Like I thought playing tennis is easy, but all my balls just flew out. The people I hit with had tons of experience so I think this does come into play.