Transcendental Knowledge?

[bennyboy]

Hahaha, I just thought of a very simple way to put this. You don't need reason to use your senses, and nothing about what you sense has to be rational (think about the nutjobs who talk to Elvis through their shoes...does the universe even need to be rational for such a sense experience? Meh, I think not).....but you -do- need to use your senses to use reason.

I have a question for you. Would you say, as Buddhists do, that the mind is itself a sense? How about that part of the mind which we call imagination?

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...I have no idea what the hell you just said. I think I'd rather read the wall of text.

Seriously, can't people whose regularly employed vocabulary contains words such as "transcendental" be clear about anything?

I would recommend reading The Critique of Pure Reason, though I fear you might not get too far... (it's a genuinely difficult book to comprehend, but then when we're dealing with concepts attempting to cut through the very heart of conceptual understanding, we shouldn't expect it to be anything but challenging).

With a title like that, I wouldn't get past the cover.

I know how you feel. Something like this, right?