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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason - Video 9: Reality and the Copernican turn
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We revisit Gardner's description of the problem of reality and the Copernican turn. I argue that it's very problematic to think of Kant as someone who claims that the objects of our knowledge are not the really real; this puts him in precisely the spot that his whole philosophy is designed to avoid. Rather, the Copernican turn consists in the attempt to understand, starting from nothing but thinking itself, why subject and object are necessarily fitted to each other.
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