• In a word, the goal is to criticize reason.

    • At the same time, it seems to be a criticism of believing in reason (blu3mo).
  • As a premise, it is important to understand the relationship between British Empiricism and Continental Rationalism.

    • British Empiricism: based on what can be experienced
    • Continental Rationalism: based on thoughts in the mind
    • Something like that, I guess?
      • Critique of Reason is also a critique of rationalism.
      • A priori refers to something that is possessed without experiencing it empirically.
    • Kant integrated these two.
  • Illusion

    • Appearance or prejudice that is different from the truth.
      • It’s a discussion that is also mentioned in the definition of virtual.
    • The assumption that there is an absolute truth/essence when talking about illusions is questionable (blu3mo).
    • Even before Kant, there was talk of empirical illusions.
      • Sensory illusions, for example.
    • Kant went beyond that and talked about transcendental illusions.
    • It doesn’t feel quite right to talk about these two separately (blu3mo).
      • It seems like they’re trying to say that they’re on different layers, but is that so…?
    • An example that emerged from the existence of transcendental illusions is antinomy.
      • When both truth and falsehood can be proven by reason.
      • Example 1: The question of whether time is infinite or finite.
        • Hmm, both “proofs” seem to have weak arguments.
          • There are various points to criticize, and I feel like it could be discussed more rigorously in mathematics or physics.
          • Well, but even if we push the criticism to its limits, there is still the possibility of having these points to criticize. Is that what is being criticized about reason?
            • But that reasoning is quite questionable.
        • So far, it seems like we’re only talking about the subtleties of Kant’s reason. (laughs)
          • Well, this is just one example/experience, and it seems like the discussion will continue from here.
  • 3