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Changes
There is only one thing I want to hide. One thing which I do not want to see, even to think of the possibility, that as time passes. Changes. The past is beautiful. And I could extract as much beauty as I want from the forgotten obscured fragments. Hands, legs,…
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What is transcendental apperception? Or the transcendental unity of apperception?
Kant’s transcendental apperception principle in the Transcendental Deduction plays an important role in his epistemology. It serves as one of the crucial links between our subjective standpoint and the external, phenomenal reality. Having provided a descriptive account of the twelve categories in the Metaphysical Deduction, in the Transcendental Deduction…
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How does the argument from geometry work?
Kant’s argument from geometry is situated in the Transcendental Aesthetic under the Transcendental Exposition of the Concept of Space. Kant, having established that our concept of space is a pure intuition in the Metaphysical Exposition of the Concept of Space, aims to answer the question, how is our synthetic…
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Thesis
It's time to take a pause. Under the street lights, snowflakes were getting heavier. They fell, and fell. Nonstop. Recently I resumed my thesis project, and as I dug deeper into the question, I became 1. intimidated by how much I do not know 2. annoyed by how…
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Why my running sucks these days
California is too cold to be hot and too hot to be cold. The temperature is awkwardly in between. So every morning when I pulled myself out of the bed, out of the heated room, and went outside, the cold breeze froze my motivation to move my legs. Plus the…