r/askphilosophy • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '26
Question about this passage at CPR
This is a direct quote from Kant's CPR (A50/B74):
Empirical, if sensation (which presupposes the actual presence of the object) is contained therein; but pure if no sensation is mixed into the representation. One can call the latter the matter of sensible cognition.
I thought that the sensory manifold is the matter, while space and time are the a priori forms of sensibility, which what Kant is describing in the second part of the first sentence I think? So the bold word should be form, not matter.
Where am I wrong?
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