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This is part 3 of a series on Immanuel Kant. Parts 1 and 2 are here and here.

I’m going old school on this post. A little 2001-2002 Tyndale action. Dr. Rich Davis is coming at you.

One of the points Kant makes when he talks about the noumena and the phenomena is that the categories of the phenomena do not apply to things in themselves.

There is a major problem with this.

Enter Rich Davis’ argument from existence …

1. Either the noumena exists or not
2. If not, then there are only phenomena, in which case the categories apply to things-in-themselves
   1. For there would be no distinction between phenomena and things-in-themselves
3. If so, then surely the category of reality would apply to the noumena, in which case the categories do apply to thing-in-themselves
4. Therefore, the categories apply to things-in-themselves.

Uh oh.

I don’t see how Kant and his disciples can recover from this. Looks like Dinesh spoke a little too soon. There are refutations to Kant.