APODICTIC CERTAINTIES
I just finished reading Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I can’t believe how closely it tracks with the basic premises of Transparent Drawing.
I don’t want to spend any time “telling you what it is about.” There are a multitude of sources that will do just that. What I want to do is to dive right in and offer a set of Kant’s thoughts and premises regarding Form Generation. In the paragraph below, I have tried, with my own words, to employ a subset of Kant’s philosophic system, as it applies to Transparent Drawing. That is to say, I have overlaid Form onto Kant’s theoretical structure.
Our Form Generation is rooted in the physical, rather than the hyperphysical. What we draw on our papers is no mere idea. Rather, what we draw is to advance reason. Our forms are not merely probable. They are true conceptions and are generated by the laws of causality. The act of drawing our forms is empirical: it is part of our experience. What we draw is that which we know to be true. We derive complete cognitizations, or we draw nothing. Our forms are never mere opinions. Rather, they are apodictic certainties.
The above reads like another installment of the Transparent Drawing Manifesto. Terms in italics are taken directly from Kant’s prose. In Kant’s book, this segment generally starts on page 434.
As I read the Critique, I simply could not believe that his focus was, to use his term, objects, or what we call form. Here we have a foundation block of western thought, and the entire inquiry is about form, time, causality, unity, truth, etc. This maps completely onto the theories that we have developed in these pages and in the book.
Kant offers the framework to bridge between Empiricism and Rationalism. Transparent Drawing offers the framework and pathway to bridge between Abstraction and Representation.
- Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated by J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Dover Philosophical Classics: New York. 2003.
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