Re: joe wants to know

Geoff Hayward (geoff.hayward who-is-at edstud.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:26:45 +0100

Joe in Meiklejohn's translation the quote is 'Thoughts without content are
void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.' It is from the second part of
the Critique of Pure Reason. Introduction: Idea of a Transcendental Logic.
I. Of Logic in General.

>Joe Glick asked me to forward this:
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>Joe
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Glick, Joseph
>To: 'xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu'
>Sent: 6/14/99 1:40 PM
>Subject: Kan anyone help on Kant
>
>I think I read it somewhere. I know I've quoted it, but I cannot find
>it. There is a Kantian phrase that seems to closely echo some of
>Vygotsky's reasoning in his writings on Scientific and Spontaneous
>concepts. The phrase is:
>
>"Concepts without intuitions are empty, intuitions without concepts are
>blind." I remember is as coming either from the Critique of Pure Reason
>or from the Prolegomena. Maybe it came from my imagination.
>
>Can anyone out there help with a source for this?
>
>jglick who-is-at gc.cuny.edu (Joe Glick)

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