From this Theme 1 I realize our knowledge is not something just from our experience, we should not firmly say we get know something as a knowledge, since as the professor said "all bodies has extension". And our knowledge that been proved can be our apriori knowledge, then we create aposteriori knowledge, after we prove this aposterior knowledge is true by basing our apriori knowledge, it is can be the apriori knowledge refers to another aposterior knowledge. And I know, "Transcendental condition of knowledge is Forms of intuition: Space and Time", Kant give the catogory which is his Apriori knowledge, and by this catogory and forms of intuition which is space and time, we can generate aposteriori knowledge by check if it has these faculties. It is important I know "perception without conception is blind, conception without perception is empty". It's hard to generate a world is a world, but we can generate it by refering our apriori knowledge to prove the aposteriori knowledge to our experience.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Reflection of Theme1
First of all, I would say it's really nice to have this course, even though at beginning, I really dislike it, since I never learnt about Philosophy and never carefully read any book or article written by philosopher, I thought this task for me is mission impossible. However, finally I did finish read the articles, and learned a lot from them. Before the Seminar I was confused by the relationship between apriori knowledge and aposteriori knowledge, how can they defined as apriori knowledge or aposteriori? And I think I getting understand during the seminar.
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I have a bit of a hard time understanding your descriptions of a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Perhaps you could separate the text into more distinct sentences to make it clearer. However, I got the same understanding of Kant's categories as you, although this kind of philosophy is a bit too hard to take in when we haven't read anything about philosophy before. I think the problem he had was how it is possible to create a priori knowledge synthetically. The solution to that problem as I understood it was his twelve categories – that we have a priori knowledge of them, that they're sort of built-in pre-existing notions that we have, and that we can use those categories to form new a priori judgements. By forming new a priori judgements, we have created judgements that didn't exist before, so they're synthetic, but at the same time they aren't formed empirically and therefore they aren't a posteriori knowledge, but synthetically formed a priori knowledge.
ReplyDeleteHi Chenchen!
ReplyDeleteYour interesting reflection show us a picture of your study journey for theme 1. It is good to know that you changed your mind of philosophy through this course, as well as received some valuable concepts or ideas for your future studies. In your reflection, I particular like the quotes "perception without conception is blind, conception without perception is empty". Same as you, I also find this sentence very important to our understanding and future research. I think the meaning is quite similar to another famous quote from Confucius that ‘To learn without thinking is blindness, to think without learning is idleness.’