ESSENTIALS == 

 :The mind boggles to see heaps of marginal hairs cut in four 
 :with a blunt knife, total absence of essentials. 
 :Now, Kant's essentials may be summarized as below. 

 :Kant is perhaps the most brilliantly reasoning modern 
 :philosopher, and the best example of brightest inference 
 :leading to nonsense when starting from false premises. 
 :He got dazzled by Newton's model and, forgetting Cartesian 
 :doubt and Galilean Relativity, posited science as exact, 
 :necessary and universal, thus absolute. 
 :From that postulate he inferred as follows. 

 :-Science is created by inductive inference. 
 :(which he called "synthetic statements") 
 :-Only a priori inference is necessary and universal. 
 :-Thus science is necessarily based upon induction a priori. 
 :-Induction a priori requires subjective representations 
 :a priori ("categories" of pure reason) such as Space, Time, 
 :Quantity, Quality, Relation, Modality. 
 :-His "Reason" is founded in these "categories". 

 :Now, Kant banned idealistic noumena from cognition and reason, 
 :but, on the other hand, founded his "reason" in these "categories", 
 :that are obviously idealistic unperceivable noumena. 

 :He never addressed, let alone solved this contradiction, which 
 :inspired the German Idealism, Fichte considering the Kantian 
 :system as essentially correct but needing "a more systematic 
 :formulation". 

 :It's a morbid paradox, that Kant dares speak about "reason", 
 :after having betrayed the Enlightenment's reason and triggered 
 :the irrationality of the Great German Idealism, thus being the 
 :precursor of Nazism and Gulag. 
   zgmet 

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