Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783) Tr. Paul Carus (1902) pp. 53-54
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A judgment of observation can never rank as experience, without the law, that "whenever an event is observed, it is always referred to some antecedent, which it follows according to a universal rule." ...We cannot therefore study the nature of things a priori otherwise than by investigating the conditions and the universal (thought subjective) laws, under which alone such a cognition as experience (as to mere form) is possible...
— Immanuel Kant on Philosophy of science
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A judgment of observation can never rank as experience, without the law, that "whenever an event is observed, it is always referred to some antecedent, which it follows according to a universal rule." ...We cannot therefore study the nature of things a priori otherwise than by investigating the conditions and the universal (thought subjective) laws, under which alone such a cognition as experience (as to mere form) is possible..." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783) Tr. Paul Carus (1902) pp. 53-54" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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