A Commentary on Kant's Critick of the Pure Reason: Translated from the History of Modern Philosophy |
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absolutely AMPHIBOLY analytical antinomies appears apperception assert Categories causality cause cognition complete connexion consciousness Consequently contradictory cosmological critical philosophy Critick deduce determined distinction distinguished doctrine dogmatical existence explained extensive quantities external phenomena fact faculty given hence human reason Idea idealism identical illusion imagination impossible internal sense intuition Kant calls Kant's Kantian knowledge Leibniz limits logical mathematics matter means mena merely metaphysic monadology moral nature necessarily necessary necessity never noumena noumenon object of experience objects of possible ontology original paralogism perception permanent pheno phenomenon possible experience predicate presupposes principle priori proof proposition proved pure concepts pure reason pure understanding quantity question rational psychology reality refutation regard relation repre represent representations rience sceptical sensation sensibility sensuous soul space substance supersensuous syllogism synthesis synthetical a priori thing per se things thinking thought tical tion transcendental transcendental idealism unconditioned valid whole
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Page 313 - There must, therefore, be a transcendental ground of the unity of consciousness in the synthesis of the manifold of all our intuitions...
Page lvii - ... that the reason does not properly give birth to any conception, but only frees the conception of the understanding from the unavoidable limitation of a possible experience, and thus endeavours to raise it above the empirical, though it must still be in connection with it.
Page 341 - For it really says nothing more than that in the whole time in which I am conscious of myself, I am conscious of this time as belonging to the unity of myself; and it comes to the same whether I say that this whole time...
Page 316 - ... apperception everything must necessarily accord with the conditions of the thoroughgoing unity of self-consciousness, which means that everything must be subject to universal functions of synthesis — synthesis according to concepts. By this means alone can apperception prove its thoroughgoing and necessary identity. For example, the concept of cause is nothing but a synthesis (of that which follows in the series of time with other phenomena...
Page 367 - But every efficient cause must possess a character — that is to say, a law of its causality — without which it would not be a cause at all.
Page 80 - We must then assume a pure transcendental synthesis as the necessary condition of all experience, for experience is impossible unless phenomena are capable of being reproduced. Now, if I draw a line in thought, or think of the time from one day to another, or even think of a certain number, it is plain that I must be conscious of the various determinations one after the other. But if the earlier determinations — the prior parts of the line, the antecedent moments of time, the units as they arise...
Page 333 - OF THE FIRST PARALOGISM OF PURE PSYCHOLOGY. WE have shown in the analytical part of the transcendental Logic that pure Categories (and among them that of substance) have in themselves no objective meaning...
Page lvi - Can we isolate reason, and, if so, is it in this case a peculiar source of conceptions and judgments which spring from it alone, and through which it can be applied to objects ; or is it merely a subordinate faculty, whose duty it is to give a certain form to given cognitions — a form which is called logical, and through which the cognitions of the understanding are subordinated to each...
Page 370 - ... of the brain. Thus we are obliged to acknowledge the existence of a chain of causes, in the regress of which, however, absolute totality cannot be found. But we need not detain ourselves with this difficulty ; for it has already been removed in our general discussion of the antinomy of the Reason, when it attempts to reach the unconditioned in the series of phenomena. If we permit ourselves to be deceived by the illusion of transcendental realism, we shall find that neither nature nor freedom...
Page 355 - The commencement of this community; fe, the state of the soul at and before birth ; (y) The end of this community ; ie, the state of the soul at and after death . (the question of immortality). Now, I assert that all the difficulties with which these questions are supposed to be beset — and with which, used as dogmatical objections — men pretend to a deeper insight into the nature of things than can be obtained by plain common sense — I say that all such difficulties are based on a mere delusion,...