Almost all mathematical principles are synthetic, and here, as will be shown, it is not experience but "pure intuition" which permits us to go beyond the concept and add a new mark to it.
These belong to pure intuition, which exists a priori in the mind, as a mere form of sensibility, and without any real object of the senses or any sensation.
His method reigned supreme through all the succeeding centuries, and it could not but do so as long as pure intuition or perception, a priori, was not distinguished from empirical perception.
The operation prescribed by the concepts of the numbers has not been carried out in pure intuition or perception, in counting, but some other operation instead of it.
But although he thus states so clearly the necessity of a science of the form of the sensations, that is of pure intuition, Kant here appears to fall into grave error.
This arises from his inexact idea of the essence of the aesthetic faculty or of art, which, as we now know, is pure intuition.
It is pure intuition, the sum of the a priori principles of sensibility.
Though, therefore, pure intuitionhas an intrinsic content, and is the immediate apprehension of that content, it stands in no relation to any actual independent object.
Now such a view of intuition obviously does not apply to pure intuition.
But the most flagrant example of Kant's failure to live up to his own Critical principles is to be found in his doctrine of pure intuition.
The British philosopher dips into idealism in order to reform belief, to get rid of dangerous shams or uncongenial dogmas, not for the sake of pure intuition or instant assurance.
The purpose is to reduce everything to plain experience of fact, and to rest neither in pure intuition nor in external existences.
That arithmetic rests on pure intuition of time is not so obvious as that geometry is based on pure intuition of space, but it may be readily proved as follows.
Space is not a discursive or so-called general concept of the relations of things in general, but a pure intuition.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pure intuition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
