“To use a very crude analogy, space and time are the spectacles through which our eyes are affected by objects. The spectacles are irremovable. Objects can be seen only through them. It is quite possible that what a person sees through his irremovable spectacles as, let us say, pink, is also pink in fact, and would be seen so even if per impossible the spectacles were removed.”*

Stephan Körner on Immanuel Kant

"Human rational behavior (and the rational behavior of all physical symbol systems) is shaped by a scissors whose two blades are the structure of task environments and the computational capabilities of the actor."

Herbert Simon

 

the noumenon,

the transcendental object,

and the thing-in-itself.

the ein sof, too!

all obscured

by the always already a priori,

shaped by a scissors.

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