Chapter 11 Part I The World as Representation § 11

In this sense, the real symmetry of "knowledge" is "sense", so we will insert the explanation of "sense" here.The concept referring to the word "sense" always has only a negative content, that is, the content that what appears to consciousness is not a concept, an abstract concept of reason.Beyond this, no matter what it is, it all falls under the concept of "sensation". [感] This concept has a wide and boundless circle of meanings, so it can include some very different things; if people have not realized that only these things are consistent with each other in the point that the meaning of negation is not an abstract concept, it is still decided. Can't understand how they can be clustered together?Because the most dissimilar, even hostile factors coexist in this concept without any problems; for example: religious sense, pleasant sense, moral sense, divided into touch sense, pain sense, color sense, sound sense, homophonic sense , dissonant senses of various bodily senses, hatred, loathing, complacency, honor, shame, justice, injustice, truth, beauty, power, weakness, health, friendship, sex Feeling blah blah blah.All these "senses" have no commonality at all except the commonality of negative meaning, that is, none of them are abstract rational cognitions.That's not all, the most striking thing is that people place under this concept the a priori intuition of spatial relations, even the a priori intuition of the pure understanding; or that every cognition, every intuition, What is only intuitively realized, and what has not been settled in the concept, is what people feel.Here, for the sake of illustration, I would like to give a few examples from recent works, because these examples are some very coincidental proofs for my interpretation.I remember reading in the introduction to the German translation of Euclid that one should let beginners draw geometrical figures before the lecture, so that they may feel the geometry before they have gained a complete understanding from the lecture. truth.Similarly, in Schillermacher's "Critique of Ethics", there is also a sense of logic and mathematics (p. 339), and a sense of similarity or difference between two formulas (p. 342).In addition, it is also said on page 361 of the first volume of Tenleman's "History of Philosophy": "People feel that those erroneous inferences are wrong, but they can't find out where they are wrong." If we examine the concept of "sensation" from the point of view, but do not recognize the sign of the negative connotation that constitutes its essence alone, then this concept, because its meaning circle is too wide, because it only has negative connotations, is completely one-sided and poor in content, It will continue to cause misunderstandings and disputes.In German we also have the word sensation (die Fmpflndung) in a rather similar sense, [also enough to cause confusion,] so it would perhaps be more appropriate to designate this word exclusively for bodily sensation, as a lower class of "sensation" . The concept "sensation," disproportionate to all other concepts, undoubtedly derives from the following source: all concepts—and whatever the word refers to are only concepts—have only for reason and proceed from it. Therefore, when people talk about concepts, they are already standing on a one-sided standpoint.But from such a standpoint, what is close to me becomes clear and must be identified as a positive aspect; what is farther away from me becomes ambiguous, and then only its negative meaning is taken into account; so every One nation calls all other nations foreigners; the Greeks call all other nations Barbarians; the English call all that are not English or non-English Continental and Continental; Christians call all others heathens or polytheists; the nobles call all other people "Princes"; the college students call all other people Philistines, and so on.This one-sidedness, which one might also say is the stubborn ignorance of pride, which, though peculiar as it may sound, is attributable to reason itself; directly belonging to its own mode of representation, that is to say, as long as it is not an abstract concept [includes all].For this reason reason, because it has not learned its own way of working through thorough self-knowledge, has until now been forced to pay its own price by seeing the misunderstandings and confusions in its own domain; A special ability to "sense", and are you still constructing theories for it?