/lit/ - Literature

>>19875757
You misinterpreted it. It's actually just some based racist stuff.

>>17376812
Imagine you are wearing rose colored glasses and looking at something. It looks sort of purple to you. However, since you know that your glasses influence your color experiences, you can ask yourself what color the thing is in itself, apart from the way you experience it (due to your glasses).

Similarly, Kant thought that all of our experiences are influenced by our cognitive apparatus. Things appear certain ways to us because of the way that they are interpreted by that apparatus. So, knowing this, we can ask of any object what it is like in itself, apart from our cognitive apparatus. As others have noted, this question was once impossible to answer since we cannot get outside of our own cognitive apparatus but now with technological leaps made throughout the years we can be given data seen purely objectively through machines.