Causation

In the latter sections of the second part, Kant discusses Hume's ideas about causation. He says that Hume was right when he said that we cannot comprehend the possibility of causality by reason or experience, but he does not feel that this concept is the result of habit or custom. Kant says that maybe we can only know how things appear to us by the form that our senses give to those things and that we know nothing about these things in themselves. Kant is basically saying that experience is more than simple impressions and that everything we experience happens in space and time and they are not impressions or sensations; they are pure intuitions.He goes on to say that pure intuitions and concepts organize experience for us and give it form.

I like how Kant seems to find a middle ground between the empiricist and rationalist views by saying that we can have a priori knowledge relating to experience and that this knowledge does not tell us anything about things in themselves. He says that innate faculties give form to what we perceive and that even though they determine the patterns according to which the world appears to us, they do not tell us anything about what the world is really like.