Kant`s Metaphysic of Experience A Commentary on the First Half of the Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft
- New York Humanities Press 1976
- 510p
includes index and biblioraphy
SCHEMATISM OF THE CATEGORIES CATEGORY AND SCHEMA A summary of Kant`s argument Importance of the chapter on Schematism The transcendental Doctrine of Judgement Subsumption under the categories "5. The difficulty of subsumption under categories The transcendental schema The restriction of the category through the schema The schema in general Special characteristics of the transcendental schema Summary of conclusions THE TRANSCENDENTAL SCHEMATA Category and schema The schema of quantity The schema of quality The schemata of relation The schemata of modality Kant`s summary The number of the schemata THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SCHEMA Subsumption and syllogism Category and schema The possibility of reconstruction The transcendental synthesis of imagination The schematism of the understanding Value of Kant`s doctrine PACE THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE OF SYNTHETIC JUDGEMENTS The nature of Kant`s argument 81 The principle of analytic judgements 83 Different kinds of synthetic judgement 84 The `third thing 86 The possibility of experience 90 The principle of all synthetic judgements 94 THE PRINCIPLES OF THE UNDER¿STANDING Different kinds of principle 97 The Principles of the Understanding 98 Intuitive and discursive certainty 100 The proof of the Principles 103 Modern science and the Principles of the Understanding 106 THE MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES THE AXIOMS OF INTUITION The Principle of the Axioms 111 The proof in the first edition 112 The proof in the second edition 114 Successiveness of synthesis 117 Intuition and object 119 The doctrine of the Aesthetic 121 The axioms of geometry 124 Quantitas and quantum 125 The formulae of arithmetic 129 The application of mathematics to objects of experience 131 THE ANTICIPATIONS OF SENSE-PERCEP¿TION The Principle of the Anticipations 134 The proof in the first edition 139 The proof in the second edition 141 Intensive quantity 144 The synthesis of quality 147 The causality of the object 15¿ The doctrine of continuity 152 Empty space and time 154 Kant`s conclusion 155 TH`E ANALOGIES OF EXPERIENCE THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ANALOGIES The formulation of the Principle 159 : The argument in the first edition 161 The modes of time 163 The argument in the second edition 167 The assumptions of the argument 17¿ The conclusion of the argument i?3 The general character of the proof I7S THE SPECIAL CHARACTER OF THE ANALOGIES The Analogies are regulative 178 The first meaning of `Analogy` i?9 The second meaning of `Analogy 180 THE FIRST ANALOGY The Principle of permanence 184 The argument of the first edition 186 The argument of the second edition 19¿ SUBSTANCE In what sense is apprehension successive 1 192 The permanent and time-determination 195 The permanence of time `99 SUBSTANCE¿ continued Substratum and substance Can substance be perceived? The quantum of substance Material substance The conservation of matter The empirical criterion of substance The concept of change Science and experience THE SECOND ANALOGY The Principle of causality The six proofs of causality The first proof The object and its temporal relations The second proof THE SECOND ANALOGY (CONTINUED) i . The third proof Origin of the concept of causality The fourth proof The fifth proof The sixth proof THE ARGUMENT FOR CAUSALITY Kant`s presuppositions Kant`s argument Objective, and subjective succession The conditions of experience The process to experience Causality and time Particular causal laws The transcendental synthesis of imagination CAUSALITY AND CONTINUITY Kant`s concept of causality The successiveness of cause and effect The continuity of change The law of continuity Continuity as the formal condition of appre¿hension THE THIRD ANALOGY Enter Vtitle. V2.