Theos-Talk Archives (July 2002 Message tt00116)

--- Mic Forster <micforster@yahoo.com> wrote:
> So if laws originate a priori then how can we
> determine whether these laws actually exist or a
> merely products of pre-existing laws which were
> discovered a priori? Touch of maya in there
> somewhere,
> I am sure.

Yes, that is exactly what it is. I am not sure about
this specific quote, but in his CRITIQUE OF PURE
REASON, Kant uses the term "a priori" to refer to the
way our brains are wired, so that there are the a
priori contents of sensation (time and space) and the
twelve a priori contents of understanding. These are
not learnings (which he calls a posteriori) but
precede all learning and experience and are imposed by
out consciousness on what we experience and learn.


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