KANT

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• KANT (noun)
  The noun KANT has 1 sense:

1. influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

  Familiarity information: KANT used as a noun is very rare.

• KANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Influential German idealist philosopher (1724-1804)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Immanuel Kant; Kant

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Derivation:

Kantian (of or relating to Immanuel Kant or his philosophy)

 Context examples 

The medieval metaphysics of Kant had given him the key to nothing, and had served the sole purpose of making him doubt his own intellectual powers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He'll talk Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or Kant, or anything, but the only thing in this world, not excepting Mary, that he really cares for, is his monism.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When Norton wandered into the intricacies of Kant, Kreis reminded him that all good little German philosophies when they died went to Oxford.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What he heard was no longer the philosophy of the dry, printed word, written by half-mythical demigods like Kant and Spencer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is wrong when you affirm that science proves the non-existence of God, or, as much to the point, the existence of matter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)