Kant was right, that the thought is forming, modifying, coloring in
compliance with the pattern of experience.
The function of the thought is to communicate itself, not to be in the
experiencing condition.
When the experience has gone, then the thought takes over, names it, and
places it within the known´s categories and forms of experience. Therefore Kant
discriminated between reality in itself – ”Das Ding an Sich” (the things in
themselves) – and the reality as it appears for us – the world of experience or
phenomena ”erscheinungen” (the things as sensed appearance); that is: our
perspective.
So, the thought can´t enter the unknown, and therefore it can never
discover or experience reality. The thought is a result of the known, of our
perspective, which is time as such, and therefore it can´t embrace the unknown,
the timeless, that, which can't be known.
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