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Kant - Experience, The Condition of The Possibility Of.
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Kant - Experience, The Condition of The Possibility Of. (Kant, Critique, 208[bottom]-210[top], 218-227) [B218-B220, and B233-B247] Kant claims that "the relation of appearances ... according to which the subsequent event ... [is] necessarily determined in time by something preceding in conformity with a rule - in other words, the relation of cause to effect - is ... the condition of experience" (227). What does this mean? How does Kant argue for it? How does it contradict Hume? Kant asserts that "experiencei is only possible through a representation of necessary connection of perceptions" (pg 209) in time. This means we need the relations between any number of sequential, empirical intuitions experienced in timeii, to be able to have empirical knowledge. Any two bits of empirical intuition in a time seriesiii are connected by an a priori, necessary rule in order to determine an objectiv. This a priori rule ensures the distinctness...
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