Abstract:
In the Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Kant used two different terms to express the meaning of intuition, that is Anschauung and intuitiv.Some scholars understand them together, viewing that intuitiv is merely the adjective form of Anschauung. But actually this kind of understanding is indefensible The differences between Anschauung and intuitiv is absolutely confirmed, both from the meaning expressed textually and from the ideas inherited etymologically. This paper tries to point out that the two terms that Kant used in the Kritik der reinen Vernunft express different meanings, and have their own referents.The former refers to the sensory intuition of Kant’s philosophy, the latter refers to the intellectual intuition of Modern Epistemology which has not been criticized. Only by this, could Kant’s ideas of intuition be clarified, and could we better understand the historical importance of Kant’s revolution in metaphysics.
