Kantian transcendental idealism is the thesis that fundamental aspects of experience are contributed by the perceiving subject rather than by the things experienced, and are not features of things as they exist independently of sensible perceivers. This is undoubtedly the most striking and at the same time the most puzzling of Kant's Critical views. It is striking because nothing could be less commonsensical than the beliefthat things as we perceive them have nothing in common with things as they are independently ofbeing per- ceived. From a more technical point of viewthe doctrine is...
Kantian transcendental idealism is the thesis that fundamental aspects of experience are contributed by the perceiving subject rather than by the thin...
