Kant, Leonard Nelson, Hegel, Prichard and Michael Huemer, the Intuitionists

I have been thinking a little about philosophy. To Prichard and Michael Huemer (the Intuitionists) direct perception of physical reality and of concepts is a fact. What I think they are ignoring is the problem that Kant has with this idea. You see, after reading Hume, Kant accepted that causality is not known by any empirical data. We might see that we hit a ball and it goes flying off many times, but we do not see causality. To Kant causality is a priori. This is the quandary that led Kant into a bifurcated version of reality (Things in themselves, and empirical phenomena), because even what we see is not perceived directly. The object we are seeing causes light to be reflected from it and that light causes us to see the object. That even little bit of causality between the object and our senses is what makes even our seeing anything as having a half empirical and half a priori part. (The object causes us to see it). The way Kant bridged this gap between knowledge and objective reality is by combining the senses and structures of the mind based on Aristotelian categories with sense data. But this solution was rejected by Jacob Fries and Leonard Nelson. To them, there is deeper source of knowledge, intuitive non-immediate knowledge that we know without reasoning and without empirical data. To some degree, this is obvious. Reasoning has to start from somewhere, otherwise you get an infinite regression. But to Fries, this knowledge is imbedded in the human mind. Leonard Nelson, however, understood this knowledge to be axioms that we have to start with in order to be able to reason at all. However, this approach seems to really be Kant’s original assumption because in order to made axioms that make sense, we already have to have some sense of what the outside world is like. To Hegel the problem of Kant to get to true knowledge is however solvable, but means of an infinite regression, (if you can get to the end of that regression), i.e. the triads that start in our world and lead up to God, the Infinite Subject. So Hegel agrees with the problem of Kant, and does not try to bypass it by direct knowledge. Rather he goes with this idea of triads, that work from below to get up higher and higher until one reaches God. This process was in fact introduced by Kant and Fichte --that of thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis. [This approch of Hegel is really the same structure of reality as the Neoplatonic philosopher, Plotinus. The difference is that Plotinus starts from above (The ONE, the Good) and goes down to this world].