Critique of Pure Reason
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What it is about
The question of whether knowledge can reach beyond experience, and the answer that it cannot: space, time and the categories are our way of receiving the world, not properties of the world in itself.
Context and history
There are two editions, 1781 and 1787, and they do not say quite the same thing: Kant rewrote the transcendental deduction and recast the critique of rational psychology. Hence citation by 'A' and 'B' page according to edition, and serious translations print both numberings in the margin. A citation from the Critique without an A or a B cannot be checked.
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I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge II. The Human Intellect, even in an Unphilosophical State, is in Possession of Certain Cognitions “à priori”. III. Philosophy stands in need of a Science which shall Determine the Possibility, Principles, and Extent of Human Knowledge “à priori” IV. Of the Difference Between Analytical and Synthetical Judgements. V. In all Theoretical Sciences of Reason, Synthetical Judgements “à priori” are contained as Principles. VI. The Universal Problem of Pure Reason. VII. Idea and Division of a Particular Science, under the Name of a Critique of Pure Reason. I. Transcendental Doctrine of Elements First Part—TRANSCENDENTAL ÆSTHETIC § 1. Introductory SECTION I. OF SPACE § 2. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception. § 3. Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Space. § 4. Conclusions from the foregoing Conceptions. SECTION II. OF TIME § 5. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception. § 6. Transcendental Exposition of the Conception of Time. § 7. Conclusions from the above Conceptions. § 8. Elucidation. § 9. General Remarks on Transcendental Æsthetic. § 10. Conclusion of the Transcendental Æsthetic. Second Part—TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC Introduction. Idea of a Transcendental Logic I. Of Logic in General II. Of Transcendental Logic III. Of the Division of General Logic into Analytic and Dialectic IV. Of the Division of Transcendental Logic into Transcendental Analytic and Dialectic FIRST DIVISION—TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC BOOK I. Analytic of Conceptions. § 2 Chapter I. Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Conceptions of the Understanding Introductory § 3 Section I. Of the Logical Use of the Understanding in General. § 4 Section II. Of the Logical F
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