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(2009) Kant's critique of pure reason, Dordrecht, Springer.

A philosophy of intuition

Otfried Höffe

pp. 83-102

The "Aesthetic" begins with a theorem that possesses neither a metaphysical nor a transcendental character (Section 1), but is crucial to the "Aesthetic" and to "Logic" as its counterpart (B 74–6): the theorem of the two stems or faculties of knowledge. This is the reason why the argument of the "Aesthetic" is prosecuted in four steps: 1. the initial statement of the theorem itself; 2. the metaphysical exposition; 3. the transcendental exposition; 4. the implication of the argument for both the theory of cognition and the theory of objects: the doctrine of transcendental idealism insofar as it bears specifically on the domain of sensibility.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2722-1_6

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Höffe, O. (2009). A philosophy of intuition, in Kant's critique of pure reason, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 83-102.

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