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Olavo de Carvalho already destroyed Kant:

>When Kant says all we perceive from the external world are fragments which our minds put together (unify), he makes an absurd point. For if we perceived things as fragments we could not perceive them at all. If I am able to unify something, I am, by myself, without the entities I perceive expressing this unity, able, more than perceiving unity, to produce unity. If I were able to produce unity of the world, then I could create the world. The unification of the world cannot be a cognitive act, for if it is only cognitive it is already abstractive, separating being and knowing, and if both are separated, I can only know the cognitive part and the existing one. This is a monstrous mistake. I cannot unify the sense data if they do not present themselves already unified to me, for if it was a purely cognitive unification, it would not be a unification whatsoever. It would be only an image, an image separated from the real entity. Now, if there is the separation of image, the cognition, and the existent, the entity, then there is no unification.

>When Kant says all we perceive from the external world are fragments which our minds put together, unify, he makes an absurd point. For if we perceived things as fragments we could not perceive them at all. If I am able to unify something, I am, by myself, without the entities I perceive express this unity, able, more than perceiving unity, to produce unity. If I were able to produce unity of the world, then I could create the world. The unification of the world cannot be a cognitive act, for if it is only cognitive it is already abstractive, separating being and knowing, and if both are separated, I can only know the cognitive part and the the existing one. This is a monstrous mistake. I cannot unify the sense data if they do not present themselves already unified to me, for if it was a purely cognitive unification, it would not be a unification whatsoever. It would be only an image, an image separated from the real entity. Now, if there is the separation of image, the cognition, and the existent, the entity, then there is no unification.