(August 14, 2014 at 4:21 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(August 13, 2014 at 5:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: As far as your use of rational, I think the difficulty I'm having with it is that it is a personal faculty, being applied to an impersonal phenomenon. I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that you perhaps mean "comprehensible."Yes, I suppose that is what I mean, though to clarify, I suppose my question pertains to whether or not it is possible to have an empirical existence, in Time and Space, without a priori pure reason, which seems inextricably interwoven with the most basic categories of existence/non-existence, unity/divisibility, finite/infinite, etc.
It isn't the existence of whatever it is that gives rise to our sense data which depends on pure reason, just us.
