We have a conceptual scheme which structures our experience of the world The active part part is the way

in which we structure experience based on concep t The inutuition of time and space is innate, you cant structure this kant disagrees with a prior. intution without experience is blind innate capacity to reason kant agrees with. we have the capacity to understand t hat 2+2 is 4 we hard hardwired to the categories of udnerstanding space time causation sense of self logic number matter and sensibility matter pa rticular obkects different languages have different syntax / different logic there are subtles differences between langauges and one level you at the connotative level, and at one level you have the descri ptive level there are differences of meaning, although differences are often small people can have a different concept of things based on langauge connantative shifts between one language and another the significance of this is that there can be no absolute theory of knowledge the level below this is about "world views" conceptual scheme (weltanschauung) . different belief systems have different conceps as well. concepts are formed of such beliefs What is liberating about the enlightenment? "man reaches maturity" What is Kant's relevance for other subject areas ? What is his relevance for the romanticist art - expressing yourself, expressing your own personal concept of things each language creates a distinct world for its speakers the mind imposes features on the world the world is relativistic for people that speak different langauge, this is a pr oblem for the theory of knowledge and science because it questions their validi ty the concept of right evolves differently . there is a word for "right" - but it sounds exactly the same as the word for "to have power over" cultures different conceptual schemes must be understood from their own viewppoi nt . problems arise from trying to understand diffrent cultures swearing is a good examples of different cultural preferences eastern and western philosophies are very different indias philosophy is similar to the west. Indian languages are related to langua ge in in the west indo-european langauges proto-language that originates the recent languages the english in 50 years time can evolve to the point where meanings are differen t to what they are today we carve out reality differently humbolt says that similar philosophies are grounded in language similarities the grammar of a language bars other ways of interpreting the world

relativism may not have the last word. every culture has a sense of justice could the ancient greek philosophies be misinterpreted when translated? plato uses the word "or"- plato may have actually said "a if not b" we can always learn to understand "aristotle couldnt understand a modern scienft ic book, book if he was to learn it then he could" pretermined conceptual schemes alter. it allows for an explanation as to why hatred exists, its harbored in the mind w hich is formulated by conceptual schemes some conceptual theories or schemes have no grounds in fact, and are perhaps mor ally incorrect a conceptual scheme may be rejected on its "closeness" or pure basis on attachme nt to its concept. no openness to other conceptual schemes. just pure blind fait h conceptual linguistic schemes