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Immanuel Kant

Transcending Kant

Joshua Mozersky argues that reality itself might be accessible to us.

Immanuel Kant is the grandfather of social constructivism – the theory that people construct reality out of a shared human experience. According to Kant, the world we experience of space, time, matter, and causation, is structured by the human mind. His point is not just that our concepts of the world are determined by our mental architecture. Rather, space, time, matter, and causation themselves are mentally structured kinds.

Kant assumes that the structure of rational thought is universal.

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