Kant's Theory of Knowledge

The aim of the _Transcendental Deduction_ is to show that the categories, though _a priori_ as originating in the understanding, are valid, i. e. applicable to individual things...

Each of the three categories of relation, i. e. those of substance and accident, of cause and effect, and of interaction between agent and patient involves, according to Kant, a...

It is the aim of the _Aesthetic_ to deal with the _a priori_ knowledge which relates to the sensibility. This knowledge, according to Kant, is concerned with space and time. Hen...

The preceding account of Kant's vindication of the categories has included much criticism. But the criticism has been as far as possible restricted to details, and has dealt wit...

The distinction between phenomena and things in themselves can be best approached by considering Kant's formulation of the alternative views of the nature of space and time. "Wh...

Kant's theory of space, and, still more, his theory of time, are bewildering subjects. It is not merely that the facts with which he deals are complex; his treatment of them is...

Human reason is called upon to consider certain questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer. These questions relate t...

The aim of the _Aesthetic_ is to answer the first question of the _Critique_ propounded in the Introduction, viz. 'How is pure mathematics possible?'[1] The aim of the _Analytic...

These principles, described as only 'explanations of the conceptions of possibility, actuality, and necessity as employed in experience', are really treated as principles by whi...

As has already been pointed out,[1] the _Analytic_ is divided into two parts, the _Analytic of Conceptions_, of which the aim is to discover and vindicate the validity of the ca...

The arguments by which Kant seeks to show that time is not a determination of things in themselves but only a form of perception are, _mutatis mutandis_, identical with those us...

The distinction between the sensibility and the understanding[1] is to Kant fundamental both in itself and in relation to the conclusions which he reaches. An outline, therefore...

As has been pointed out,[1] the aim of the second part of the _Analytic of Principles_ is to determine the _a priori_ principles involved in the use of the categories under the...

A = First edition of the _Critique of Pure Reason_. B = Second edition of the _Critique of Pure Reason_. Prol. = Kant's _Prolegomena to any future Metaphysic_. M = Meiklejohn's...