Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether Heinrich Rickert’s concept of irrealism is a consequence of his antirepresentationalism. As we have seen, irrealism separates the immanent sense of a proposition and of knowledge from the real mental process of cognition. The irreal sense determines knowledge of reality only when cognition is not understood as a representation. Understood in this manner, anti-representationalism confirms the arguments against the theory of representation.