답변 길게 해주셔 감사합니다. 조금 더 들어가게 되니 영어로 답하겠습니다. 영어를 잘하는 것은 아니지만, 한국어를 못하니 제대로 답할 자신이 없네요.
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왜냐하면 "물체끼리 갖는 관계들"은 직관의 형식이고, 직관의 형식이라는 건 결국 "주관적 조건들과 대상들이 맺는 관계"라서, 결국 전자가 후자에 포함되기 때문입니다.
I take "직관의 형식" to mean a form of our intuition. However, I cannot see why relation between objects nor relation between subjective conditions and objects could be forms of intuition. As long as I know, two forms of our intuition are space and time. I can see that outer intuition only contains relations between objects, but I cannot see why that is a form of our outer intuition. Also the same with the latter relation.
But more importantly, I found sophisten's reading unsatisfactory because Kant's claim that we cannot know thing in itself can have different arguments depending on which relation we are referring to. Let us look at the potential argument arising from sophisten's reading of relation, i.e. relation as a relation between subject and object.
P1: Kant's relation refers to a relation between subject and object.
P2: Subject can relate to objects only through sensibility.
P3: Sensibility is receptive.
C1: We cannot know something other than what is given.
P4: Objects may include properties that are not given to us.
C2: Therefore, we cannot know if we have a complete account of objects.
However, if we take relation as a relation between objects, we have a different argument:
P1: Kant's relation refers to relations between objects (extension, movement, force) (Of course, why these three relations are relations is not evident from the text.).
P2: Outer intuition only contains relations.
P3: Objects have intrinsic properties, that is, properties instantiated by virtue of the object in which they are instantiated only (assumption that is prevalent throughout CPR).
P4: Relations are not intrinsic properties (Change in distance from other objects need not imply change in intrinsic properties).
C1: Outer intuition does not include intrinsic properties.
P5: Outer intuition is the only access we have to outer objects.
C2: We don't have access to intrinsic properties.
Even though conclusions may have similar consequences (depending on how you reconstruct the argument), it is clear that we have two distinct arguments. And presumably, referring to an argument that is different from the argument that Kant is implicitly making is not what we want to do. And because Kant made explicit that he is referring to relation as a relation between objects, I thought taking relation as a a relation between subject and object would be an incorrect reading, though Kant may support that argument.
- In fact, writing an essay out of B66-67 is one of Kant assignments I need to complete by the end of this semester (so not strictly a "journal quality" topic). So far, I have some reconstruction, and I will be happy to share it with you once I finish it.