In his philosophy, these are two different spheres of knowledge: empirical – this is the external world, which is known through experience and scientific experiment; transcendental – this is the sphere of the mind and those tools with which a person learns about himself and the methods of knowledge themselves.
In modern philosophy, this division already has three categories, which Popper defined:
The real objective world, which is known through experience and knowledge. At the same time, knowledge cannot be absolute, but only true by virtue of the received empirics (experience). The most important and unusual consequence of this approach is that the objective world does not depend on the subject of the knower and exists perfectly… “unauthorized” (self-sufficient). This is the empirical reality.
The world in the abstractions of human cognition. This is not the real world. Everything is possible in it. If in reality there is no” Ideal “(for example, a “mathematical point” or a “straight line” does not exist in reality), then in the transcendental world of abstractions such assumptions are quite common.
The third world is the result of the interaction of the objective world and the transcendent in the form of creative or productive human activity. In other words, a world created by a person's imagination, but limited by the real laws of the objective world. How to put it even easier… for example, we can imagine an arbitrarily high tower up to outer space, but in reality the creation of such a tower is limited by real (revealed by an empirical method) laws and, accordingly, it is impossible to build such a tower.
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In his philosophy, these are two different spheres of knowledge:
empirical – this is the external world, which is known through experience and scientific experiment;
transcendental – this is the sphere of the mind and those tools with which a person learns about himself and the methods of knowledge themselves.
In modern philosophy, this division already has three categories, which Popper defined:
The real objective world, which is known through experience and knowledge. At the same time, knowledge cannot be absolute, but only true by virtue of the received empirics (experience). The most important and unusual consequence of this approach is that the objective world does not depend on the subject of the knower and exists perfectly… “unauthorized” (self-sufficient). This is the empirical reality.
The world in the abstractions of human cognition. This is not the real world. Everything is possible in it. If in reality there is no” Ideal “(for example, a “mathematical point” or a “straight line” does not exist in reality), then in the transcendental world of abstractions such assumptions are quite common.
The third world is the result of the interaction of the objective world and the transcendent in the form of creative or productive human activity. In other words, a world created by a person's imagination, but limited by the real laws of the objective world. How to put it even easier… for example, we can imagine an arbitrarily high tower up to outer space, but in reality the creation of such a tower is limited by real (revealed by an empirical method) laws and, accordingly, it is impossible to build such a tower.