| | Merlin,
... the biologically most important situations between which it has to distinguish. Thus the disposition to distinguish between these situations is built into the sense organ, and with it the theory that these, and only these, are the relevant situations for whose distinction the eye is to be used.
The fact that all our senses are in this way theory-impregnated shows ...
That's, as Michael says, modified Kantianism. Popper may not have claimed to be explicitly Kantian, but he is so implicitly -- or operationally. He is, functionally, a Kantian. He may not overtly champion a noumenal-phenomenal dichotomy, but he inadvertently does just that. He is a Kantian by (his) accident.
Ed
|
|
