**Links to**: [[Tabular rasa]], [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[Gravity]], [[Schema]], [[Schematism]], [[Linearity]], etc. %% ### Table of nothing, Kant, [[Nothing]], [[Nothingness]] From everything and nothing, Priest and Gabriel, intro (all latin in italics): “In modern Western philosophy the concept of nothingness is typically associated with Hegel, although I should point out that, in the Transcendental Analytic, Kant offers an interesting and little discussed “table of nothing,” in which he makes a valiant effort to think through the intricacies of nothingness. Kant begins by observing that his discussion of the concept “nothing,” though “not in itself especially indispensable, nevertheless may seem requisite for the completeness of the system.”{14: _14 Kant (1998), AZ90._} He then constructs a fourfold table of nothing where the notion takes the form of 1) an empty concept without an object (ens rationis), 2) an empty object of a concept (nihil privativium), 3) an empty object without a concept (nihil negatiu ium), and 4) an empty intuition without an object (ens imaginarium}.Kant writes: >One sees that the thought-entity (No. 1) is distinguished from the non-entity (No. 4) by the fact that the former may not be counted among the possibilities because it is a mere invention (although not self contradictory), whereas the latter is opposed to possibility because even its concept cancels itself out. Both, however, are empty concepts. The nihil privatium (No. 2) and the ens imaginarium (No. 3), on the contrary, are empty data for concepts. If light were not given to the senses, then one would also not be able to represent darkness, and if extended beings were not perceived, one would not be able to represent space. Negation as well as the mere form of intuition are, without something real, not objects. (15 Kant (1998), B349.).” pp. 8-9 Continued notes on [[Illusion]].