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Quotation from Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

“We here propose to do just what COPERNICUS did in attempting to explain the celestial movements”

Immanuel Kant (spoken by Kant)

Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the Second Edition (B xvi), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855)

Portrait of Immanuel Kant

Kant's 'Copernican' hypothesis that objects conform to our cognition.

Citation: "We here propose to do just what COPERNICUS did in attempting to explain the celestial movements" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Preface to the Second Edition (B xvi), trans. J. M. D. Meiklejohn (1855). (id critique-of-pure-reason-q3)

Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.

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