Oh sweet data, I was beginning to despair. All this time it was like the great Philosophical Pantheon looming malevolently over me from on Philosophical Mount Olympus. Kant, like Zeus, was throwing not lightning bolts, but ideas.

I'm not sold on our minds being incapable of conceiving the world without space or time. Most things I can think of in math or programming have something to do with causality/time (functions, logic). But there are things that I think are apart from it (a number series, an object definition). I'm sure the argument for us being unable to conceive of things without space or time is a lot more tedious, I'm just saying that if I'm looking at things I think are weak about Kant's world view, I would include the space-time assertion along with eventualities of his phenomena/noumena construct.

#1365, posted at 2010-12-03 16:47:00 in Language; Literature; Writing