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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for Knowledge
Kantian Constructivism
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1
Kant's
revolution in epistemology centers around the claim that objects must conform to the structure of our knowledge rather than vice versa.
2
Kant calls things-in-themselves as they exist independent of the conditions of our experience noumena and things-as-they-appear-to-us
.
3
The understanding is the active power in experience, while the
is the passive power, according to Kant.
4
In Kant's philosophy the twelve
of the understanding are the pure concepts contributed by the understanding to shape the structure of experience.
5
Kant believes we can have knowledge of phenomena but we cannot have knowledge of
.
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