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I don't think that Kant makes the distinction between "knowing" and "having information about" that you and I would make. If he doesn't outright deny that we have any information about the world beyond our senses, he certainly comes awfully close.
On A380, Kant writes,
And, on A703/B731, he writes,
(Emphasis added. These are from the Guyer–Wood translation.)
Does anyone smell irony in this whole discussion? Considering the OP specifically derided the whole "discussion of old, dead guys" thing?
Ah, I wish this wasn't a three year old post. I have no idea how this site works yet, so who knows whose attention I'll attract by doing this?
At least the person whose comment you're replying to sees your reply, so you weren't speaking entirely into the void :).