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kant
/kænt/
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What does kant mean?
proper noun
- A surname from German.
- Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
- A city in Kyrgyzstan.
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Writers like Goethe and thinkers like Kant imagined that they saw in it the triumph of reason.
But what is distinctive of Kant is the way in which he apportions the shares of ourselves and the physical object respectively.
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And, with Kant and Fichte, he found his stronghold in the conviction that man has something to do, even if he cannot solve all enigmas.
But Kant is not here distinguishing between foolishness and simplicity, but between pretentiousness and kindly honesty, thus indicating the former as the necessary attribute of foolishness.
Such also is the problem of the infinite divisibility of matter, which, as Kant has shown, can be denied and affirmed successively by arguments equally plausible and irrefutable.