(1.7) There is a limit to knowledge in the noumenon, although there is a temptation that other philosophers have fallen into by transgressing that boundary. (This being the last thing I wrote yesterday).
This idea is reaffirmed in the quote: “The possibility of experience, in general, is therefore at the same time the universal law of nature, and the principles of the experience are the very laws of nature.”
(1.7.1) Although it can be read in a dual manner, that quotation and the philosophy that backs it are recommending one thing over another: study the mind to understand the science of nature.
(1.7.2) But this raises a question, are the apparent laws of nature “real”, or are the “ideal” properties of mind (Kant, of course, would not use those terms to describe this dichotomy, a dichotomy which in any case is falsified by a third option).
(1.8) Let’s ask first, do the laws of geometry of the circle lie in the circle (as a thing) or in the understanding (whose synthesis creates the circle’s possibility)? [This is important because it debates the problem of epistemological priority. Plus, it seems counterintuitive to say that the circle has the law of radius to area purely to the understanding, and not due to what a circle in itself is. The answer is simple, even if it is hard to incorporate: the mathematical and geometrical laws of the circle are the outcome of the basic premise that creates a circle (e.g. equidistant radius from a single focal point).]
Now is raised the question, well how can we know the concepts. All the more problematic if they are the very tools we use to synthesize the information we use for judgements and cognition.
(2) Categories are ultimately derived from the laws of logic and that is an element in what proves their veracity.
(2.1) The task to identify the underlying grammar and vocabulary of language, is a phenomenon comparable to that of identifying the concepts that underly experience (S39). [This analogy makes it easier to swallow the difficulty of discovering the underlying structure of the tool used for its exploration].
