Let me return to the last of yesterday‘s line’s, wherein I was translating Kant into a Euclidean format:
(1.4) Introduces “Science of Nature”
(1.4.1) “Nature is the existence of things, so far as it is determined according to universal laws.”
(1.4.2) In S15 shows what this might look like. [Insightful – see highlights]
(1.4.3) Another definition, “nature is the complex of all the objects of experience.”
(1.4.3.1) Thus avoids science of the “hyperphysical”
(1.4.4) How can we know that there are laws to experience?
(1.4.4.1) (A) Observation becomes experience only with the law that everything refers to an antecedent according to a universal law. (B) “Everything of which experience teaches that it happens, must have a cause.”
(1.4.4.1.1) #A is the more philosophical explication.
(1.4.4.2) This can be studied by asking, ‘How are the a priori conditions for experience also the source from which the universal laws of nature must be derived?’
(1.4.4.3) To study nature via experience, need to understand the principle that objective validity is equivalent to necessary universality (for everybody).
Following (1.4.4.3):
(1.5) Experience is the product of the senses and the understanding (cf. S20).
