[lbo-talk] A short soliloquy on freedom and fishing

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Kant is not interested in explaining our lived experience of time in the way that, e.g.g., William James would have been. Or EP Thompson in his great essay on time and work discipline. He is interested in the trans central conditions for the possibility of experience, and these include, according to him, the synthetic a priori and necessary truth (Kant thought that all a Priori truths were necessary, which is probably a mistake, even is if there are any a priori truths) that all experience is temporally organized, occurs in time, involves the temporal ordering of what he called intuitions, roughly, sensations. He might have conceded Carrol's point, but would have regarded it as a contingent truth about empirical psychology and history. It is, howerver, precisely the sort of thing that interests William Hames -- as a psychologist.  

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> On Nov 7, 2013, at 5:12 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Arthur Maiseld: Time, Space, and Causality are *a priori*for Kant in the
> sense that they are preconditions for any experience whatsoever---they are
> precisely what cannot be learned from experience.
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> This seems doubtful in respect to time at least, since ways of experiencing
> time have changed radically. Prior to the last few centuries, events
> measured time rather than time measuring events.  Postone points out that
> Newton was quite aware that time as he defined it (and needed it for his
> physics) was an invention not a discovery. 
> 
> Carrol
> 
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