Sentence examples for forms of sensibility from inspiring English sources

Although in the last kind of proposition the meaning of the predicate term is not contained in the meaning of the subject term, it is nevertheless possible to know the proposition independently of experience, because it expresses a condition imposed by the forms of sensibility.

Thought implies an ability to experience representations of another type not involving the forms of sensibility — space, time, and causality.

The first, the phenomenal realm, consists of appearances or objects of possible experience, configured by the forms of sensibility and the epistemic categories.

In particular, his doctrine of space and time as forms of sensibility was given a naturalistic construal in the physiology and psychology of perception.

The second level of the a priori consists in the forms of sensibility and the understanding, that is, space, time, and the categories.

To assume this is to take what are for Kant merely subjective features of our intuition (forms of sensibility, space and time) to be universal ontological conditions holding of everything whatsoever.

For the organic conception of rationality that that theory implied — reason being nothing more than a more developed, more reflective, form of sensibility — fitted well indeed with Leibniz's system.

After 1770 Kant never surrendered the views that sensibility and understanding are distinct powers of cognition, that space and time are subjective forms of human sensibility, and that moral judgments are based on pure understanding (or reason) alone.

In the Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant argued that mathematics necessarily deals with space and time and then claimed that these are both a priori forms of human sensibility that condition whatever is apprehended through the senses.

What Humboldt is saying, then, is that the mental acts he has described would not have been possible without assistance from the general forms of our sensibility.

He installed a small video camera inside a water-filled basin, the sides of which were lined with the artist's tiny reproductions of paintings important to the forming of his sensibility, including works by Georg Baselitz, Donald Baechler and the Neapolitan Francesco Clemente.