Knowledge Quote by Ulrich Müller

It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,…

— Ray Brassier

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is…

— Immanuel Kant

“Such is Kant’s (1787/1933, B180) “schematism of understanding,” though he candidly confessed that how this occurred was a mystery “in the depths of the…

— Ulrich Müller

“In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points…

— Ulrich Müller

“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an animal, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories”

— Ulrich Müller

“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche,…

— Stefanie Weisman

“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the soul, which…

— Ulrich Müller

“We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori…

— Bertrand Russell

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori, Leibniz ended…

— Lee Braver

“Kant argued that our intuition (i.e., sensibility) and understanding use a priori (i.e., independent of all experience) forms and categories, which are the condition…

— Ulrich Müller

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

— Anonymous