If you say that's what Kant said, Stephen, then fine. I'd like to read it from him. What you wrote seems similar to statesments from Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology. Without a percept, a sensation has no meaning. You have the feeling, but it exists without any context, without any meaning. The essential difference as I understand it (Rand being easier to understand than Kant), is that concept formation and abstraction are efforts of will, not pre-existing "forms" to which we conform our perceptions. (Edited by Michael Marotta on 6/26, 5:51am)
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