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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"transcendental deduction"”.
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The Central Role of Cognition in Kant's Transcendental Deduction
… concern in the Critique of Pure Reason’s transcendental deduction is empirical cognition. I show how empirical cognition is best understood as “rational sensory discrimination”: the capacity to discriminate sensory objects through the use of concepts and with a sensitivity to the …
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Kant's theory of cognition: an interpretation of the argument of the transcendental deduction
The purpose of Kant’s transcendental deduction in the Critique of Pure Reason is to prove that certain concepts not derived from experience (called categories) apply to and govern the objects of our experience. Kant seeks to dispel Hume’s skeptical assertion that concepts such as cause and …
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A Kantian critique of David Lewis's modal realism
… and principles, given his notion of an objective transcendental deduction, an argument which shows that, without these concepts, experience of objects would not be possible. The error is corrected by supplying de re modal concepts (i.e. essence and accident) and a new modal principle: the …
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Heidegger's Late Marburg Project: Being, Entities, and Schematism
… takes up primarily Kant’s framework of a priori transcendental conditions that are to make empirical experience possible, which Heidegger reformulates in terms of the pre-understanding of being that makes possible the apprehension of entities. In the latter case, I isolate two primary criticisms …