I'm ill informed on Kant's philosophy so won't be able to answer any "probing" questions, but his Critique of Pure Reason revisits and examines Plato's notions of form and that which is knowable without experience or observational data (pure reason, rather than reasoning about the observed world). The vastly oversimplified upshot is that time and space, and our understanding of them and sequencing of phenomena within them, are precedent to experience. So too is our understanding of form. He termed this sort of knowledge "a priori" and carried on about logical causality (rather than physical), such as a geometric proof which is not only universally true and knowable without observation but which is incapable of being proven through observation, since for instance no one could draw a flawless right angle triangle and take perfect measurements of it. Rather, our understanding of the nature of the triangle is based upon our purely intellectual apprenhension of it's form.
I'm going by hazy memory here so gimmie a pass if I'm a little off target.
You know Prince?
Hope this helps.
http://www.garveymedia.com/garvey/goodbye_horses.html As the writer, musician and producer of this song, I wanted to add a bit of light to it, as it has a rather grisly association with the serial killer in “The Silence of the Lambs”, but really the song is about transcendence over those who see the world as only earthy and finite. The horses represent the five senses from Hindu philosophy (The Bhagavad Gita) and the ability to lift one’s perception above these physical limitations and to see beyond this limited Earthly perspective.
I mixed this version to be slightly more vibrant using some late 70’s percussion (Eno, OMD). It’s sort of a pre-mix, as if it were done back when electronic music was still new, utopian and innocent. I didn’t want to distract those familiar with the original, I only wanted to enhance it, therefore I left the song’s event structure intact.
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-William Garvey 2008GOODBYE HORSES
He told me, “I’ve seen it rise,
But, it always falls.
I’ve seen ‘em come, I’ve seen ‘em go.”
He said, "All things pass into the night.”
And I said, "Oh no sir, I must say you're wrong,
I must disagree, Oh no sir, I must say you're wrong,
Won't you listen to me?”
He told me, “I've seen it all before,
I’ve been there, I've seen my hopes and dreams
lying on the ground.
I've seen the sky, just begin to fall.”
He said, "All things pass into the night"
And I said, "Oh no sir, I must say you're wrong,
I must disagree, Oh no sir, I must say you're wrong,
Won't you listen to me.”
Goodbye horses, I'm flying over you.
Goodbye horses, I'm flying over you.
William Garvey - BMI
Words & Music Copyright 1988
Q&B Publishing
Vocals: Q Lazzarus
Words, Music & Production: Garvey
Copyright © 2008 Garvey Media LLC
