Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsKant, Immanuel
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Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Kant, Immanuel
Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800; Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800
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{14} This name seems preferable to the term particularia, which is used
for these judgments in logic. For the latter implies the idea that
they are not universal. But when I start from unity (in single
judgments) and so proceed to universality, I must not [even indirectly
and negatively] imply any reference to universality. I think plurality
merely without universality, and not the exception from universality.
This is necessary, if logical considerations shall form the basis of
the pure concepts of the understanding. However, there is no need of
making changes in logic.
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§ 21. To prove, then, the possibility of experience so far as it
rests upon pure concepts of the understanding a priori, we must first
represent what belongs to judgments in general and the various
functions of the understanding, in a complete table. For the pure
concepts of the understanding must run parallel to these functions, as
such concepts are nothing more than concepts of intuitions in general,
so far as these are determined by one or other of these functions of
judging, in themselves, that is, necessarily and universally. Hereby
also the a priori principles of the possibility of all experience, as
of an objectively valid empirical cognition, will be precisely
determined. For they are nothing but propositions by which all
perception is (under certain universal conditions of intuition)
subsumed under those pure concepts of the understanding.
Logical Table of Judgments.
1. 2.
As to Quantity. As to Quality.
Universal. Affirmative.
Particular. Negative.
Singular. Infinite.
3. 4.
As to Relation. As to Modality.
Categorical. Problematical.
Hypothetical. Assertorial.
Disjunctive. Apodeictical.
Transcendental Table of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding.
1. 2.
As to Quantity. As to Quality.
Unity (the Measure). Reality.
Plurality (the Quantity). Negation.
Totality (the Whole). Limitation.
3. 4.
As to Relation. As to Modality.
Substance. Possibility.
Cause. Existence.
Community. Necessity.
Pure Physiological Table of the Universal Principles of the Science of Nature.
1. 2.
Axioms of Intuition. Anticipations of Perception.
3. 4.
Analogies of Experience. Postulates of Empirical Thinking
generally.
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