For Immanuel Kant (d.1804), what the mind supplies is not a "fiction of the imagination" but a concept, a "category," that, a priori, is necessary for the coherence of the world.

Nov 29, 2025 · The Proceedings still receives e-mail from people passionately advocating so miserable, impoverished, and incoherent a theory as Logical Positivism, or who argue that the concept of …

His entire argument begins with the concept of "not being" and is a critique of that concept, that we think about it as though it refers to something, even though, by definition, it cannot.

"Salvation" as a religious concept, whether in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, is independent of morality and aesthetics. Even in Judaism, "walking in the ways of the Lord," clearly involves …

A concept in its simplest form is the memory of an act of abstract apprehension. The concept is created with the first awareness that one feature in an object may be distinguished from another.

There are a number of interesting currents in this passage that will merit recall later. For one, the term "appearance" has been used where the reader of Kant might expect "intuition," and this is part of …

By way of the concept of numinosity the traditional philosophic problems of religion such as Kant's questions of God and immortality can be approached.

That dualism is established by the use of the concept of intentionality to distinguish between a relative, or phenomenal, existence within consciousness and existence as such.

The difference between intuition and immediate knowledge is that the concept of intuition contains the added feature of immediate awareness -- that the intuitive ground is explicitly present to consciousness.

The concept of "God" that such men and women possess owes nothing to Southern fundamentalist preachers. But perhaps we detect a personal animus here.