My best attempt at attempting to characterize Kant’s Transcendental Idealism -
Kant’s idealism says that essence—not existence—is dependent on us. That is to say, what it is to be is dependent on how we understand. For example, the schema of classification in biology, such as genetic proximity, depends on what purposes they serve to us. What it is for animals to be depends, in other words, on the biologist. To draw the biology analogy ad absurdum, transcendental idealism says something like “the genetic composition is the condition of the possibility of how we are able to make sense of biological objects in the first place”. The existence of these classification schema is dependent on our mind a priori.
My best attempt at attempting to characterize Kant’s Transcendental Idealism - Kant’s idealism says that essence—not existence—is dependent on us. That is to say, what it is to be is dependent on how we understand. For example, the schema of classification in biology, such as genetic proximity, depends on what purposes they serve to us. What it is for animals to be depends, in other words, on the biologist. To draw the biology analogy ad absurdum, transcendental idealism says something like “the genetic composition is the condition of the possibility of how we are able to make sense of biological objects in the first place”. The existence of these classification schema is dependent on our mind a priori.