![]() ![]() ![]() According to Kant, the purpose of philosophy is elucidation of empirical knowledge that we do have, through critical analysis of its sources, not metaphysical speculation about reality, which does not and can not produce any knowledge. And he illustrated, in antinomies of pure reason, that such misapplication is not only a category error, but can lead to contradictions. He calls " transcendental illusion" taking " a subjective necessity of a connection of our concepts… for an objective necessity in the determination of things in themselves". That "rational intuition" postulated by previous philosophers, like Descartes and Leibniz, to break out of this limitation was based on misapplying concepts of experience to noumena, entities that can not be objects of any possible experience. ![]() His point was that all our experience is about phenomena (appearances), and that "ultimate nature of reality" is inaccessible, if it has any meaning at all. Kant is famous exactly for the breaking with the tradition of metaphysics that preceded him. ![]()
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