Rethinking Kant's a priori doctrine

Abstract

The author's aim is to reveal in Kant's doctrine the presence of yet another kind of a priori knowledge, a rather awkward one, since it is contained in... perception. It is demonstrated that this particular kind of a priori is related to the requirement of thingness within knowledge, which is not the thing as such, but the reality. One has, therefore, to examine the relation of a thing to reality. Another and no less strange hypothesis to be proved is that the a priori knowledge not only is contained in thinking but that it acquires its form through thinking. The proof is based on an analysis of the notions of scheme and schematism.