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Kant on Spatial Orientation
Author(s) -
Bernecker Sven
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2010.00410.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , meaning (existential) , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , orientation (vector space) , philosophy , space (punctuation) , position (finance) , mathematics , linguistics , geometry , biochemistry , chemistry , finance , economics
This paper develops a novel interpretation of Kant's argument from incongruent counterparts to the effect that the representations of space and time are intuitions rather than concepts. When properly understood, the argument anticipates the contemporary position whereby the meaning of indexicals cannot be captured by descriptive contents.