“According to Kant, out knowledge is formed by two things: our actual experiences and the mind’s faculties of judgment. If Kant is correct, then we cannot know reality as it is.” Soccio page 332. Kant says that we can only know reality through a human understanding. Kant uses the term, “Phenomenal reality” for the world as we experience it. On the other side of the coin, Kant uses the term, “Noumenal reality” for the reality as it is independent. Basically, all we can know defiantly is our very own perceived reality. Kant goes on to say that our mind takes in and organizes it into distinct categories. Aristotle says that own mind actually “grasps” the idea/substance/item.
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) said that all knowledge is through sense impression. David Hume (1711-1776) and Kant were in a unison agreement on the idea of our mind taking in all our knowledge through our senses. Kant said that we must use substances (through sense impressions) to understand the World. It was a necessary way of thinking. He also said that we identify and re-identify substances during everyday life. We re-identify substances the sequential times after the first appearance of the object.
Kant did not agree that knowledge is impossible without the senses. He felt that knowledge comes in through raw data. He said that the raw date does not have anything in it and that your brain decodes the new raw data. Hume agrees fully with the statement that knowledge is impossible without the senses. He felt that all ideas came from sense impressions. Furthermore, he stressed that we are born with a blank slate. Finally, he stated that the senses complete the way of knowledge. Kant and Hume were nearly total opposites on the idea that knowledge is impossible without senses, Kant being against the idea and Hume being for the idea
Born with innate ideas, another topic that put Kant on the other side of the coin, relative to a philosopher. Kant did not feel that we are born with ideas. He felt that there are numerous categories built into our mind and it is through sense impressions that we sort through them. He felt that sense impressions are automatically categorized into out brain. And for us to know anything we must think in terms of the categories and every mind must have them. Descartes (1595-1650) was on the other hand with this issue. He felt that ideas were built into your head at birth. He stressed that even language structures were built in at birth. He was clear to say that it is not the language itself, but rather something that helps one to learn any particular language, depending on the culture they were born into. Descartes did believe in innate ideas, while Kant clearly did not.
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