What actually is the "thing-in-itself" in Kantian philosophy?
>>920480
Kant's thing-in-itself. If you know what I mean.
You Kant know.
>>920480
That which accounts for the sensory data of experience; that which cannot be known like the phenomenal, physical, natural world can be known, but that which can be merely conceived as "that which appears" underlying the spatiotemporal appearance known by me; the correlate that explains, grounds, the phenomenal world-as-appearance; that which is independent of the forms of the human mind, independent of the ways in which the human mind imposes regular order upon the raw data given within the human mind's faculty of sensibility (the human mind's faculty for receiving sense data).
In other words: within my mind arises sensations of colors and temperatures and textures and tastes and smells - and the thing-in-itself is the ground of all this consequent sense data given within the innate forms of my mind; my mind has innate functions, operations characteristic of it, that structure this given sensory content into the orderly, regular, intelligible, predictable patterns that characterize the natural world and this world's progression through time.
