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Kant's "Analytic" seeks to demonstrate that the mind provides the formal structure around which experience is built. Central to Kant's argument is bis doctrine of time, for all our knowledge is finally subject to time, the formal condition of inner sense. In it all our representations must be ordered, connected and brought into relation. 'This", Kant teils us, "is a general observation which, throughout what follows, must be borne in mind äs being quite fundamental" 2 . In the course of his argument Kant distinguishes the objective order of time from its subjective order. I should like to consider some of the problems which this distinction raises for the general argument of the "Analytic". I shall maintain that their solution provides the clue to the füll argument of the "Analytic" äs Kant understood it. The transcendental deduction begins first of all with a particular description of experience and then regresses to the transcendental conditions which make such descriptions possible. In one of its more notable formulations the argument begins with an analysis of what we mean by the expression "an object of representations", an object to which the representations given to consciou

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Author

W. H. Bossart

Published

1978

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)