Drawing on the recent article about Kant [1], if a concept is a mental categorisation of patterns within our sensory inputs, and reason is the mixing of such co

Drawing on the recent article about Kant [1], if a concept is a mental categorisation of patterns within our sensory inputs, and reason is the mixing of such concepts according to some rules, and arriving at novel concepts that we have yet to experience as sensory inputs, then philosophy is a discipline that is in danger of a combinatorial explosion of concepts. While adhering to the general rules of reasoning, such higher order concepts are far removed from the real world because they are built up on multiple layers of abstractions. And it never need to stop because one can keep building abstractions on top of each other, and one has people to talk with who speak the same abstractions. I suspect this is is what has happened to philosophy. I think past philosophers drew more from history and their own experiences (closer to the "metal" as it were) than the writings of other philosophers. On that note, it is interesting that we've not seen any contribution from modern philosophy to alleviating some of the greatest existential crises the world is facing today: e.g. "How much inequality is acceptable, if so, why? What are the ethics of damaging public goods such as the atmosphere? To what extent should citizens be held accountable for the war actions of their representatives? How far back can a historical claim to land go? Should the law view natural persons (who possess a conscience) and artificial persons such as corporations (who do not) in the same way?" [1] https://ralphammer.com/immanuel-kant-what-can-we-know/ https://ralphammer.com/immanuel-kant-what-can-we-know/