K: it is the thing in itself... The one idea we cannot grasp. It is an individual concept that exists only within a single person. You could not possibly understand what I am thinking and the same goes for me. I can't know what your thinking either.

BT: that makes sense.

K: of course it does bar tender... An add on to that would be my categorical imperative. Categorical meaning it would be applied to all situations, imperative meaning having command or authority, and maxim being the reason for an action. We act as if the maxim were to become through ourselves a universal law of nature. In other words, we must act as if humanity is an end in itself which relates back to Das Ding an Sich. My next idea was the material dialectic complete with a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. It combines empirical and rational ideas through "a priori" and "a prosteriori." A priori is a type of knowledge which can be known without experience. An example being all bachelors are single.

Marx: True dat... (Long pause)

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