there being included under this the pure science of movement, is thus
laid in the critical doctrine of space and time.
The _Aesthetik_ isolates sense-perception, and considers its forms as
though it were an independent, complete faculty. A certain confusion,
arising from this, is noticeable in the _Analytik_ when the necessity
for justifying the position of the categories is under discussion, but
the real difficulty in which Kant was involved by his doctrine of
space and time has its roots even deeper than the erroneous isolation
of sensibility. He has not in any way "deduced" space and time, but,
proceeding from the ordinary current view of sense-experience, has
found these remaining as residuum after analysis. The relation in
which they stand to the categories or pure notions is ambiguous; and,
when Kant has to consider the fashion in which category and data of
sense are to be brought together, he merely places side by side as a
priori elements the pure connective notions and the pure forms of
perception, and finds it, apparently, only a matter of contingent
convenience that they should harmonize with one another and so render
cognition possible. To this point also Fichte was the first to call
attention.
Affection of sense, even when received into the pure forms of
perception, is not matter of knowledge. For cognition there is
requisite synthetic combination, and the intellectual function through
which such combination takes place. The forms of intellectual function
Kant proceeds to enumerate with the aid of the commonly received
logical doctrines. For this reference to logic he has been severely
blamed, but the precise nature of the debt due to the commonly
accepted logical classification is very generally misconceived.
Synthetic combination, Kant points out, is formally expressed in a
judgment, which is the act of uniting representations. At the
foundation of the judgments which express the types of synthetic
combination, through which knowledge is possible, lie the pure general
notions, the abstract aspect of the conditions under which objects are
cognizable in experience. General logic has also to deal with the
union of representations, though its unity is analytic merely, not
synthetic. But the same intellectual function which serves to give
unity in the analytic judgments of formal logic serves to give unity
to the synthetic combinations of real perception. It appeared evident,
then, to Kant that in the forms of judgment, as they are stated in the
common logic, there must be found the analogues of the types of
judgment which are involved in transcendental logic, or in the theory
of real cognition. His view of the ordinary logic was wide and
comprehensive, though in his restriction of the science to pure form
one can trace the influence of his earlier training, and it is no
small part of the value of the critical philosophy that it has revived
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