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Chapter II: Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding 202

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_Analysis of the Text: the Four Stages in the
Development of Kant's Views_ 202-234

I. _Enumeration of the Four Stages_ 203

II. _Detailed Analysis of the Four Stages_ 204
_Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Object_ 204

III. _Evidence yielded by the "Reflexionen" and "Lose
Blätter" in Support of the Analysis of the
Text_ 231

IV. _Connected Statement and Discussion of Kant's
Subjective and Objective Deductions in the
First Edition_ 234

_Distinction between the Subjective and the Objective
Deductions_ 235

_The Subjective Deduction in its initial empirical
Stages_ 245

_Objective Deduction as given in the First Edition_ 248

_The later Stages of the Subjective Deduction_ 263

_The Distinction between Phenomenalism and Subjectivism_ 270

_Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the
Second Edition_ 284

_The Doctrine of Inner Sense_ 291

_Kant's Refutations of Idealism_ 298

_Inner Sense and Apperception_ 321

Book II. THE ANALYTIC OF PRINCIPLES 332

Chapter I. THE SCHEMATISM OF PURE CONCEPTS OF
THE UNDERSTANDING 334

Chapter II. SYSTEM OF ALL PRINCIPLES OF PURE UNDERSTANDING 342

1. The Axioms of Intuition 347

2. The Anticipations of Perception 349

3. The Analogies of Experience 355

_A._ First Analogy 358

_B._ Second Analogy 363

_Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's Argument_ 365

_Kant's Subjectivist and Phenomenalist Views
of the Causal Relation_ 373

_Reply to Further Criticisms of Kant's Argument_ 377

Part II. THE TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC--_Continued._

_C._ Third Analogy 381

_Schopenhauer's Criticism of Kant's Argument_ 387

4. The Postulates of Empirical Thought in General 391

Chapter III. ON THE GROUND OF THE DISTINCTION
OF ALL OBJECTS WHATEVER INTO
PHENOMENA AND NOUMENA 404

_Relevant Passages in the Section on Amphiboly_ 410

_Alterations in the Second Edition_ 412

_Comment on Kant's Argument_ 414

Appendix. The Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection 418

Division II. THE TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC 424

_Introductory Comment upon the composite Origin and
conflicting Tendencies of the Dialectic_ 425

_The History and Development of Kant's Views in
regard to the Problems of the Dialectic_ 431

Introduction 441

I. Transcendental Illusion 441

II. Pure Reason as the Seat of Transcendental Illusion 442

Book I. THE CONCEPTS OF PURE REASON 446

Section I. Ideas in General 447

Section II. The Transcendental Ideas 450

Section III. System of the Transcendental Ideas 453

Book II. THE DIALECTICAL INFERENCES OF PURE REASON 455

Chapter I. THE PARALOGISMS OF PURE REASON 455

First Paralogism: of Substantiality 457

Second Paralogism: of Simplicity 458

Third Paralogism: of Personality 461

Fourth Paralogism: of Ideality 462

_Second Edition Statement of the Paralogisms_ 466

_Is the Notion of the Self a necessary Idea of Reason?_ 473

Chapter II. THE ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON 478

Section I. System of the Cosmological Ideas 478

Section II. Antithetic of Pure Reason 480

_Comment on Kant's Method of Argument_ 481

First Antinomy 483

Second Antinomy 488

Third Antinomy 492

Fourth Antinomy 495

Part II. THE TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC--_Continued._

Section III. The Interest of Reason in this Self-Conflict 498

Section IV. Of the Transcendental Problems of Pure Reason in so far as they absolutely must be capable of Solution 499

Section V. Sceptical Representation of the Cosmological Questions 501

Section VI. Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of the Cosmological Dialectic 503

Section VII. Critical Decision of the Cosmological Conflict of Reason with itself 504

Section VIII. The Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in regard to the Cosmological Ideas 506

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