Urteil und Erfahrung

English summary: This study shows the inner workings of Immanuel Kant's Theory of Experience. Kant investigated what the cognitive necessities are for humans to make objective and true judgments, so-called empirical judgments. He asks why such judgments can be objectively true even though they are based on a subjective and relative basis. In this volume the author follows Kant's methodological path to his final goal: determining the complex deep structures behind simple empirical...
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English summary: This study shows the inner workings of Immanuel Kant's Theory of Experience. Kant investigated what the cognitive necessities are for humans to make objective and true judgments, so-called empirical judgments. He asks why such judgments can be objectively true even though they are based on a subjective and relative basis. In this volume the author follows Kant's methodological path to his final goal: determining the complex deep structures behind simple empirical judgments, such as "The sun is warming the rock," and showing the extent to which the objective truthfulness of such judgments depends on these deep structures. This is the first of two volumes on Kant's Theory of Experience. German description: Kant untersucht die kognitiven Bedingungen dafur, dass der Mensch objektiv wahrheitsfahige Urteile, sogenannte Erfahrungsurteile, bilden kann. Er fragt, warum diese Urteile trotz ihrer subjekt-relativen Wahrnehmungsbasis objektiv wahr sein konnen. Der Autor zeichnet Kants methodischen Weg zu dessen Ziel nach: Die komplexen formalen Tiefenstrukturen der zum grossen Teil einfach scheinenden menschlichen Erfahrungsurteile, wie z. B. Die Sonne erwarmt den Stein, zu klaren und zu zeigen, inwiefern ihre objektive Wahrheitsfahigkeit von so komplexen formalen Tiefenstrukturen abhangen kann. Dieser Band ist der erste von zwei geplanten Banden zu Kants Erfahrungstheorie.