Sunday, May 18, 2008
Kant
Also, in one of his notes he says that geometry has objective reality as prescribing the form of all sensible intutions. He also says that geometry would be fiction if the senses represented to us things in themselves. And earlier he also says that mathematics must exhibit its concepts in intution. Throughout my reading Kant tried to explain how pure mathematics is possible but i never really seemed to find the answer. I thought Kant was very confusing to me.
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Stephanie, I completely agree. Kant's ideas on geometry caught my attention and made me think but i didn't feel like he ever really came to a conclusive idea... it seemed to me almost that he just went on to another idea without really finishing that one. He talks about geometry and the idea of figuring out the length of a hypotenous through math but I felt like he left it very unfinished. I too found this section very confusing.
Yea..that is what he kind of did..i'm glad im not the only one who thought he was confusing.
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