The constitution of the object in Immanuel Kant and John Poinsot. From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Furton, Edward J. | COPYRIGHT 1997 Philosophy Education Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The 17th-century Scholastic philosopher John Poinsot developed a concept of objective constitution, suggesting an approach compatible with the indeterminism of modern physics. This approach offers an alternative to the Kantian conception of the object, which depends on a deterministic Newtonian mechanics. Poinsot identifies the formal sign as the source of objectivity. According to Poinsot, the object is grasped transparently through the concept, but the object is not grasped as known until i...

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