I agree that we get information from reality. And I think that we agree that our confidence that we get information from reality is far less murky than our concept of “the nature of reality”.
Kant, being a product of his times, doesn’t seem to think this way, though. Maybe, if you explained the modern information-theoretic notion of “information” to Kant, he would agree that we get information about external reality in that sense. But I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine what a thinker like Kant would do in an entirely different intellectual environment from the one in which he produced his work. I’m inclined to think that, for Kant, the noumena are something to which it is not even possible to apply the concept of “having information about”.
I agree that we get information from reality. And I think that we agree that our confidence that we get information from reality is far less murky than our concept of “the nature of reality”.
Kant, being a product of his times, doesn’t seem to think this way, though. Maybe, if you explained the modern information-theoretic notion of “information” to Kant, he would agree that we get information about external reality in that sense. But I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine what a thinker like Kant would do in an entirely different intellectual environment from the one in which he produced his work. I’m inclined to think that, for Kant, the noumena are something to which it is not even possible to apply the concept of “having information about”.