Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Origin of Kant's Philosophy is the Problem of Human Reason as the Eighteenth Century had developed this problem. The problem was: How can the Truth which not only Theology, but also common sense and natural science pretend to know about our world, be defended against skepticism? Our human powers being once for all so limited, how can any genuine truth of any sort be known...
...Kant's first answer is: Things in Themselves are of necessity unknown to us. We can know in a theoretical sense only the things that appear to our senses, i.e., the Phenomena of the World of Show. Neither common sense, nor science, nor theology, can, with theoretical assurance, carry us beyond the world as it seems to our human powers of observation and experience...
...particular, Space and Time can be shown to be more Forms of our Human sense-consciousness, and to have no relation to Things in Themselves. The unknowable real world without us exists therefore neither in space nor in time. We know not how this world exists at all; we only recognize that it exists...
Dear Sirs: There has been lately much talk on the accommodations for coaches at the Yale-Harvard game. There also seems to be no authority behind any statements. Now it is necessary for those who have planned to go in coaches to know whether they will be accommodated decently or not, for if the game cannot be seen from coaches, they must make some other arrangements. Will not the CRIMSON find out as to the circumstances, and publish some notice which will have authority, and will be binding? The supporters of the team deserve to know and have a right...
...come to my knowledge that some Harvard students have wanted to know at what hour I can be seen. I am at the Wadsworth House every morning, except Sunday, from 9 to 12, until and including Thursday, Nov. 13, and am always glad to see any one who wishes to see me for counsel on any subject religious or secular...