The Metaphysical Deduction of Categories in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant presents a transcendental and a metaphysical exposition of time and space as pure intuitions and as forms of sensibility. In a later chapter he presents a metaphysical and a transcendental deduction of a priori pure original concepts. According to Kant t...
| Publicado en: | Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 7 - 18 |
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2019
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