A newborn fawn gets up and starts walking around in a few hours. Either he learned in a short time that the universe is 3 rather than 199 dimensions, or he already had that knowledge essentially encoded at birth. Big deal Kant. Actually, big deal scientists (forgiving all the additional detail I’m sure is in those papers).
I find it curious that the writers would reference Kant on this. Surely it’s a signalling explanation rather than as a true causal precedent of their research.
It may seem obvious now, but someone still had to think of it, and the first person to do that was Kant. This seems analogous to complaining that Newton only did first-year stuff. And we still call it Newtonian mechanics, even if lots of 19th century mathematicians eventually did it better than Newton.
I’m a bit surprised at how little love Kant gets in these comments—sure he didn’t correctly solve the problem of how knowledge relates to experience, but he was the first one to make any useful progress on it at all.
A newborn fawn gets up and starts walking around in a few hours. Either he learned in a short time that the universe is 3 rather than 199 dimensions, or he already had that knowledge essentially encoded at birth. Big deal Kant. Actually, big deal scientists (forgiving all the additional detail I’m sure is in those papers).
I find it curious that the writers would reference Kant on this. Surely it’s a signalling explanation rather than as a true causal precedent of their research.
It may seem obvious now, but someone still had to think of it, and the first person to do that was Kant. This seems analogous to complaining that Newton only did first-year stuff. And we still call it Newtonian mechanics, even if lots of 19th century mathematicians eventually did it better than Newton.
I’m a bit surprised at how little love Kant gets in these comments—sure he didn’t correctly solve the problem of how knowledge relates to experience, but he was the first one to make any useful progress on it at all.