What Is a Thing?

includes index and biblioraphy

Philosophical and scientific questioning Ambiguous talk about the thing The difference in kind between the question of thingness and scientific and technical methods The everyday and scientific experiences of the thing Particularity and being-this-one The thing as just this one Subjective-objective; the question of truth The thing as the bearer of properties The essential construction of the truth, the thing, and the proposition The historicity of the definition of the thing Truth¿proposition (assertion)¿thing Historicity and decision Summary B. kant`s manner of asking about the thing I. The Historical Basis on Which Kant`s Critique of Pure Reason Rests The reception of Kants`work in his lifetime The title of Kant`s major work The categories as modes of assertion Adyos¿ratio¿reason The modern mathematical science of nature and the origin of a critique of pure reason The history of the question about the thing: summary Rational metaphysics (Wolff, Baumgarten) II. The Question About the Thing in Kant`s Main Work What does "critique" mean in Kant The relation of the "critique" of pure reason to the "system of all principles of the pure understanding" Interpretation of the second main section of the transcendental analytic The highest principle of all analytic judgments Kant`s essential definition of the judgment On the highest principle of all synthetic judgments Systematic representation of all the synthetic principles of pure understanding Analysis