{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 3/l04/p017","lang":"en","edition":"SOL2024","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":false,"text":"Only what we call concepts and ideas have been given to us in a form we call “the intellectual view”. Kant and the more recent philosophers who follow him completely deny that people have this ability, because all thinking is supposed to incorporate only objects standing in the vicinity ( *Gegenstände*) and brings forth absolutely nothing out of itself. In the intellectual view, however, the content must be given along with the think-form ( *Denkform*). But isn't this really the case with pure concepts and ideas? — By concept I mean a rule according to which the unconnected elements of perception are combined into a unity. Causality, for example, is a concept. Idea is just a concept with a larger content. Organism, taken completely abstractly, is an idea. — One only must look at concepts and ideas in the form in which they are still completely free of any empirical content. For example, if you want to grasp the pure concept of causality, you must not stick to any specific causality or to the sum of all causalities, but rather to the mere concept of it. We must look for *causes and effects in the world* ( *Ursachen und Wirkungen*, primal circumstances and how they work themselves out), but we ourselves must produce causality as thought-form before we can find it in the world. But if one wanted to hold on to Kant's assertion that concepts without intuitions are empty, it would be unthinkable to demonstrate the possibility of characterizing the given world through concepts. Suppose two elements of the world's content are given, a and b. If I am to look for a relationship between them, I must do so with a rule that has a certain content, but I can only produce such a rule in the act of cognition itself. I cannot take the rule from the object, because any characterization of the object is done with the help of the rule. Such a rule for the determination of actuality, of being real ( *Bestimmung des Wirklichen*) arises completely within a being capable of pure inner grasping, of pure inner understanding ( *der rein begrifflichen Entität*).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"IV. 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