Kant argues in the Critique of Pure Reason that synthetic a priori principles like causality are not self-evident but require transcendental deduction to establish their objective validity.

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Causality(One of the independent premises of D2 in Plato's Parmenides): A principle about causal relations invoked as a premise in D2A4, paired with No Causation by Contraries to generate entailments about properties
Critique of Pure Reason(as the specific work where Kant discussed these ideas): Kant's major philosophical book (published 1781) examining the limits of human knowledge and arguing that our minds actively structure our experience of the world.
Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Transcendental Deduction(The Critique of Pure Reason; the deduction spans multiple sections and is not complete at §20): Kant's argument establishing the legitimate application of the pure concepts of the understanding (categories) to objects of experience

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