ABSTRACT
If a theory has in itself stability, the stresses and strains which may at first have seemed very threatening to it serve only, in the course of time, to smooth away its inequalities; and if men of impartiality, insight, and true popularity devote themselves to its exposition, it may also, in a short time, secure for itself the necessary elegance of statement. Although Kant himself does not actually use the word ‘perspective’, he does use a variety of terms that can be taken as equivalent to this term. A search through Kt1 reveals that in this book alone Kant uses well over 500 ‘perspectival equivalents.’ The empirical perspective takes over right where the transcendental perspective leaves off, by considering the status of the ordinary objects we experience in the world. But now, Kant views the objects not in terms of the general conditions that make them possible, but in terms of already known objects of experience, called ‘phenomena’.
