Philosophy Needs a Science to Determine Principles of a priori Knowledge

by Kant

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Superphysics Note

This is already addressed by the Asian Sciences and by Superphysics

Some of our cognitions rise completely above physicality.

These are in the transcendental or supersensible sphere where our experience cannot guide us.*

Superphysics Note

The Europeans are ignorant of the akasha or aether and so they have no guidance on metaphysical dynamics.

This is addressed by the investigations of reason which is superior to the senses.

This science is caled metaphysics.

How does the understanding arrive at these within-the-mind cognitions?

The science of mathematics is an absolutely within-the-mind knowledge.

It has been long firmly established.
It is a brilliant example of how far, independently of all experience, we may carry our within-the-mind knowledge.

The mathematician occupies himself with cognitions represented by intuition.

But that intuition is also within-the-mind. Therefore, it is also an absolute within-the-mind conception.

Plato abandoned the world of sense because of the narrow limits it sets to the understanding.

We likewise venture on the wings of ideas beyond the sense, into the void space of pure intellect.

He did not reflect that he made no real progress by all his efforts.

The greatest part of the business of our reason is in the analysis of our ideas of objects.

This gives us many ideas.

This process gives us real within-the-mind knowledge which deceives the mind. This makes the mind assert the different things.