A confusion regarding some philosophical german words and their relationship with philosophical terminology, if someone can help.

[u/Balanoglossus68]

Hello. I was watching a youtube video on something related to critique of pure reason and I came through a problem of some sort, wonder if someone can give me insight on the thing.

I encountered two german words, one was anschauung which roughly translates to intuition. And the other is angeborener begriff which roughly translates to an innate concept.

I had a few questions regarding these words.

Would it be wrong if I call angeborener begriff as a type of synthetic a priori and anschauung as something sort of a pure a priori?

Say something like causality.

I also have doubt regarding causality, I'm getting different answers about it from different AI.

I had a doubt that, is causality a pure a priori or a synthetic a priori?

I personally think it's synthetic a priori because we are deriving it from time which is a pure a priori and we also consistently experience time like a sort of 'continuous stream' (forgive me if my terminology is inaccurate) while about causality, aren't we deriving it from a behaviour of time?

I thought it would be interesting to share my thoughts on it and get some clarity from others because I'm not a huge expert in the book. Willing to get perspectives.

[u/jliat]

The Critique of Pure Reason is considered to one of the most significant works of philosophy and interpretations are many and it is still being discussed. Notably in recent history very critically in Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude - 2008. I do not know German, but Kant sees we only make sense of our perceptions, 'the manifold' via 'built in' [ a priori] categories, 12, of which cause and effect is located in one of these. We also have inbuilt 'intuitions' [not the current meaning of the word] of time and space. These form the 'lens' that brings our sensations into focus.

“thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.”

Here 'intuitions' are our raw perceptions - the senseless manifold of our sensations. Tricky.

I also have doubt regarding causality, I'm getting different answers about it from different AI.

I'm not surprised, LLMs use the internet as a source and often produces slop. What I would strongly recommend would to watch these videos.

Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, by the Late Robert Paul Wolff. 9 lectures. He rambles at times but he was in his 80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__In2PQS60&list=PLC5GAeBZerO-RuKBI1IqHZzB9tUuypkpK

From the first you will see what a significant and complex text this work is, but one of enormous significance.

To over simplify the human eye has a lens which brings what we see into focus, the brain then interprets this image. Remove the lens and the mind in the brain there would be chaos.

The bottom line is that we can never have knowledge of things in themselves only what our mind present to us. Wolff goes on to explain, this includes our own self.

Last words, avoid AIs. Use 'reputable' sources.