Sunday, December 30, 2018

Transformal Causality, Cognition, Action

Hume's concept of Causality is, more precisely, an interpretation of the perception, by a detached, or perhaps even disembodied, observer, of the sequence of data commonly characterized as 'efficient causation', his primary aim of which is to dismantle the Rationalist attribution of Necessity to the sequence.  Accordingly, Kant's response accepts the context.  He, thus, bypasses an opportunity to go further, and undermine the context itself.  Thus, for example, he does not recognize from his own example of one's perception of one's drawing a line, prominent in his B revision of the First Critique, the possibility of tracing causal connection to one's own Action.  Then, analyzing the drawing of a line, rather than a drawn line, he could recognize that the connecting of the points is an effect of Formal Causality, and that the action illustrates the synthesis that the Cognitive category of Causality effects. Now, as has been previously discussed, since Form and Matter are complementary, any imposition of structure is actually a restructuring, or, in other words, that Formal Causality is actually Transformal Causality.  Accordingly, if, as Kant posits, Causality is an a priori category of Human experience, then, fundamentally, it is not qua Cognitive and  Efficient Causality, but qua Practical and Transformal Causality.

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