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    Kant does not need a separate argument for transcendental... — Carmelics
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    Kant does not need a separate argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Analytic.

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    • 1.The Transcendental Aesthetic already established that empirical intuitions yield appearances rather than things in themselves.
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    • 2.The Transcendental Analytic establishes that the categories yield knowledge only when applied to intuitions.
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    • 3.It automatically follows from these two results that the categories yield cognition only of appearances.
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    • 1.The Transcendental Aesthetic's conclusion that intuitions yield appearances presupposes space and time are mind-dependent, which requires independent justification.
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    • 2.Henry Allison's 'epistemic conditions' reading shows the Analytic introduces distinct constraints—conceptual synthesis—that cannot be derived from aesthetic results alone.
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    • 3.Without a separate argument in the Analytic, Kant cannot explain why the categories, unlike intuitions, do not yield knowledge of things in themselves through intellectual intuition.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's 'bounds of sense' critique establishes that the Analytic's deduction of categories introduces a new transcendental claim about objectivity irreducible to the Aesthetic's spatial-temporal idealism.
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    • 2.The unity of apperception introduced in the Analytic is a spontaneous, non-sensible condition that demands its own idealist grounding distinct from the passivity-based argument of the Aesthetic.
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    Kant does not need to mount a separate argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Analytic, because while that is aimed at showing that the use of certain concepts (the categories of pure understanding) and principles (the principles of pure understanding) are necessary conditions of any cognition of objects at all, indeed of self-consciousness (apperception) itself, but also yield knowledge only when applied to intuitions, pure intuitions in the case of pure mathematical cogniti
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