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Conditions of Possibility

Conditions of possibility is a philosophical concept developed by Immanuel Kant referring to the necessary frameworks or prerequisites for certain entities to possibly appear or exist. For example, space is a condition of possibility for the existence of cubes, as it provides the extension for cubes to exist in, even though space itself did not cause any particular cube to exist. Gilles Deleuze presented conditions of possibility as an alternative dichotomy to the classical phenomenon/noumenon distinction, arguing that one should examine the necessary conditions for things to appear rather than seeking some higher essence behind appearances.

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Conditions of Possibility

Conditions of possibility is a philosophical concept developed by Immanuel Kant referring to the necessary frameworks or prerequisites for certain entities to possibly appear or exist. For example, space is a condition of possibility for the existence of cubes, as it provides the extension for cubes to exist in, even though space itself did not cause any particular cube to exist. Gilles Deleuze presented conditions of possibility as an alternative dichotomy to the classical phenomenon/noumenon distinction, arguing that one should examine the necessary conditions for things to appear rather than seeking some higher essence behind appearances.

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Conditions of possibility

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Condition of possibility (Bedingungen der Mglichkeit) is a
philosophical concept made popular by Immanuel Kant.
A condition of possibility is a necessary framework for the possible
appearance of a given list of entities. It is often used in contrast
to the unilateral causality concept, or even to the notion of
interaction. For example, consider a cube made by an artisan. All
cubes are three-dimensional. If an object is three-dimensional, then
it is an extended object. But extension is an impossibility without
space. Therefore space is a condition of possibility because it is a
necessary condition for the existence of cubes to be possible. Note,
however, that space did not cause the cube, but that the artisan did,
and that the cube and space are distinct entities, so space isnt part
of the definition of cube.
Gilles Deleuze presented it as a dichotomy in contradistinction to the
classical phenomenon/noumenon dichotomy. From Plato to Descartes, what
was presented by the senses was deemed illusory and denigrated. It was
believed that the perceptions ought to be overcome to grasp the thingin-itself, the essential essence, ala Platos allegory of the cave.
With Kant comes a transition in philosophy from this dichotomy to the
dichotomy of the apparition/conditions-of-appearance. There is no
longer any higher essence behind the apparition. It is what it is, a
brute fact, and what one must now examine is the conditions that are
necessary for its appearance. Immanuel Kant does just this in the
Transcendental Aesthetic, when he examines the necessary conditions
for the synthetic a priori cognition of mathematics. But Kant was a
transition, so he still maintains the phenomenon/noumenon dichotomy,
but the noumenon has already been relegated unknowable and to be
ignored.Foucault would come to adapt it in a historical sense through
the concept of "episteme".
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