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Q&A: Causality and Noumena

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Causality and Noumena

Question

Good evening!
Yaakobi asked about Kant: if, as he says, the entire principle of causality exists only in the phenomenon, then there is no reason or ability at all to determine that there is a noumenon, since there is no causality there.
I would like to argue exactly the opposite: indeed, to the noumenon as prior to the world of phenomena, it is truly impossible to attribute causality that causes phenomena to occur. However, it necessarily follows that there is something beyond the phenomenon, which is a product of our cognition, because we did not create ourselves.
That is, my claim is that Yaakobi’s whole question is correct only when one defines the noumenon as existing outside of / prior to our cognition (the phenomenon). But if we reverse this and claim / define the noumenon as a source prior to our cognition (perhaps this fits with the Rabbi’s intention, in that intuition recognizes a law such as causality and in ethics, etc.?), then it necessarily exists.
Thank you very much!
 

Answer

I didn’t understand. Are you claiming that the relation between noumenon and phenomenon is not a causal relation? I look at a table, and thus the cognitive image of the table is formed in me. Isn’t that a causal relation?
I didn’t understand what it means that we created ourselves, or what connection that has to the discussion.
I didn’t understand how your proposal differs from the causal proposal. A source prior to cognition means that which generates cognition (its cause).

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