although our pure concepts of the understanding and our principles are independent of experience, and despite of the apparently greater sphere of their use, still nothing whatever can be thought by them beyond the field of experience, be- cause they can do nothing but merely determine the logical form of the judgment relatively to given intui- tions. But as there is no intuition at all beyond the field of the sensibility, these pure concepts, as they cannot possibly be exhibited in concreto, are void of all meaning; consequently all these noumena, to- gether with their complex, the intelligible world, are nothing but representation of a problem, of which the object in itself is possible, but the solution, from the nature of our understanding, totally impossible. For our understanding is not a faculty of intuition, but of the connexion of given intuitions in experience. Ex- perience must therefore contain all the objects for our concepts ; but beyond it no concepts have any signifi- cance, as there is no intuition that might offer them a foundation. (Kants Prolegomena) Renaissance Harp Works,Becky Baxter
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