ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that causal principle is a necessary condition of perceptual truth. It explores that causal law has universal applicability in respect of all sensible phenomena. Kant suggests, in course of his proof, that, even at the stage of apprehension, we can have consciousness of the manner in which sense-impressions arrange themselves in our imagination, and that the only consciousness which is so far lacking is that of objective successions. This implication we reject, if only because such a view is incompatible with fundamental principles of Kant's theory of knowledge. In any case, it is evident enough that Kant's problem cannot be brought out properly, unless it is stated in strictly epistemological terms. Kant's enquiry into the Principles of Understanding, or synthetic a priori judgments, may assist us in coming to realize that this is a problem which has to be faced by any philosopher who wishes to give a satisfactory account of ultimate presuppositions of human knowledge.
