Zack Beauchamp

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3. Somehow, American conservatives have gotten it in their heads that this means that Kant is a skeptic about reality and reason. I believe the source of this is Ayn Rand, but it's complete hogwash. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2021

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2. In "The Critique of Pure Reason," Kant argues that humans are not capable of perceiving the reality of the external world — that we only can only interact with the world we perceive, which is not (given our limits) the world as it necessarily is — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2021

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4. A fundamental aim of the Critique is to *vindicate* reason against the limits of of our perceptual capabilities. Kant argues for a category of truths, called "a priori" truths, that we can know to be true without reference to our experiences of the outside world — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2021