Day 8: Introduction to the Transcendental Logic

•      Return Essay 1 and discuss

•      Finish: Concerns with the Transcendental Aesthetic

•      Sources of Knowledge

•      Logic

•      Judgments and categories

      Read: CPR 120-128; CPR 21-25

               Pr 42-53 (sections 14-22)

Concerns with the Transcendental Aesthetic

•      Logicism and Kant’s theory of arithmetic

•      Non-Euclidean Geometry and Kant’s theory of geometry

•      Other concerns

Sources of Knowledge

•      CPR-B74: The two sources of knowledge are

    Sensibility – the capacity for receiving the impact of the world on the subject – and

    Understanding – the capacity for knowing an object by using that which is provided by the senses.

Sources of Knowledge

•      How are the two sources related?

•      “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind” (CPR-B75)

•       CPR-B87

Sources of Knowledge

•      CPR B-74: Receptivity and Spontaneity

•      CPR B-74-75: Both intuitions and concepts can be pure and empirical

Logic

•      Aesthetic: science of the rules of sensibility.

•      Logic: science of the rules of the understanding.

Logic

•      Logic can be general or specific

•      Specific: contains the rules for applications of the understanding to specific objects

•      General: can be divided into pure and applied (CPR-B77-79)

Logic

•      Pure General Logic: abstracts from all content of its subject matter, and does not deal with empirical principles

•      Applied General Logic: : deals with the necessary rules of the application of pure logic in concrete or psychologically real conditions

Logic

•      Transcendental Logic:

          – What is it?

          – How is it related to other types/ parts   of logic?

Judgments and Categories

•      Transcendental analytic: a study of all a priori knowledge given by the (pure) understanding (CPR-B89)

•       4 conditions for the discovery of the fundamental concepts of the understanding