Concepts, Ideas, Intuition
April 24th 2007 01:26
Hey all,
little post presenting 3 definitions Kant used in his work that are quite important if you someday try to read and understand what the guy has to say....
For Kant, the representation of anything in our minds can have 3 different types:
- Concepts: These are the things you have in your head but they can't be "projected into real". Concepts are the images you can't find in reality, but men have inside them to help him understand and interpret reality.
- Ideas: These are the things that could be real: the things that men have in his head that can be "materialized", can be "projected into real". An object you see in your mind is a representation of a concept, or, as Kant define, an Idea. But when passing form Concept to Idea, men is not using any "fact" he got from "real", his creating the Idea from the Concept
- Intuition: These are the things that could be real, representations of Concepts. But, diferent from Ideas, Intuition comes from the representation of something men see in "real", "facts" that were projected from "real" to their "minds" (form one base to another..)
Well, you're not understanding a single thing. But to make this all clear, i just need an example. For instance, chairs.
Men have all in their heads the Concept of what is a chair: the ensemble of caractheristics that place all these objects togheter. When someone shows you a chair, or asks you to draw one, you're using the Concept you have in your head to define the chair, or to draw it.
But when you think of A chair, you're representing it, you're passing from the Concept to the Idea. You can create inifinte diferent chairs form this one Concept. You can create infinite Ideas of chair from its Concept.
In the same way, when you see a chair, you're passing form the Concept to the Intuition.
So, now it is pretty clear the difference between Concept and the other 2 ones. But why the hell the guy separates Ideas and Intuition?
Notice that Ideas are the representation of Concepts using information form your mind, while Intuition is the representation of Concepts using information form "real". This are different things, because sometimes you can imagine a thing that can't be real (a "flying massage" chair), and sometimes yo usee things in "real" that you would not be able to imagine.
For the math people: Concepts are like incomplete vectors in your base (your mind). When you complete the missing components with things from your head, you have an Idea. When you complete the vector with component you got from a "fact" (a vector) you got from "real" (the world's base), you have an Intuition.
Ok, now you're asking "and what's the use for all of this?" Hehe, it is quite important, and we'll get to some good conclusions on causality with this...but for a next time. Cheers.
Uula
little post presenting 3 definitions Kant used in his work that are quite important if you someday try to read and understand what the guy has to say....
For Kant, the representation of anything in our minds can have 3 different types:
- Concepts: These are the things you have in your head but they can't be "projected into real". Concepts are the images you can't find in reality, but men have inside them to help him understand and interpret reality.
- Ideas: These are the things that could be real: the things that men have in his head that can be "materialized", can be "projected into real". An object you see in your mind is a representation of a concept, or, as Kant define, an Idea. But when passing form Concept to Idea, men is not using any "fact" he got from "real", his creating the Idea from the Concept
- Intuition: These are the things that could be real, representations of Concepts. But, diferent from Ideas, Intuition comes from the representation of something men see in "real", "facts" that were projected from "real" to their "minds" (form one base to another..)
Well, you're not understanding a single thing. But to make this all clear, i just need an example. For instance, chairs.
Men have all in their heads the Concept of what is a chair: the ensemble of caractheristics that place all these objects togheter. When someone shows you a chair, or asks you to draw one, you're using the Concept you have in your head to define the chair, or to draw it.
But when you think of A chair, you're representing it, you're passing from the Concept to the Idea. You can create inifinte diferent chairs form this one Concept. You can create infinite Ideas of chair from its Concept.
In the same way, when you see a chair, you're passing form the Concept to the Intuition.
So, now it is pretty clear the difference between Concept and the other 2 ones. But why the hell the guy separates Ideas and Intuition?
Notice that Ideas are the representation of Concepts using information form your mind, while Intuition is the representation of Concepts using information form "real". This are different things, because sometimes you can imagine a thing that can't be real (a "flying massage" chair), and sometimes yo usee things in "real" that you would not be able to imagine.
For the math people: Concepts are like incomplete vectors in your base (your mind). When you complete the missing components with things from your head, you have an Idea. When you complete the vector with component you got from a "fact" (a vector) you got from "real" (the world's base), you have an Intuition.
Ok, now you're asking "and what's the use for all of this?" Hehe, it is quite important, and we'll get to some good conclusions on causality with this...but for a next time. Cheers.
Uula
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