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- Title
Revisiting the Proof-Structure of Kant's Transcendental Deduction.
- Authors
Kim, Hyoung Sung
- Abstract
There is no consensus concerning how to understand the 'two-step proof structure' (§§15–20, 21–7) of the Transcendental Deduction in the B-edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. This disagreement invites a closer examination of what Kant might have meant by a 'transcendental deduction'. I argue that the transcendental deduction consists of three tasks that parallel Kant's broader project of a 'critique' of pure reason; first, an origin task to justify reason's authority to use them; second, an analytical task that determines the conditions under which this authority can be legitimately exercised; and third, a dialectical task to determine the conditions under which this authority cannot be legitimately exercised. So long as we continue to read the B-Deduction solely in terms of its two-step proof structure, we overlook how Kant's notion of 'critique' constitutes the real grounds for his argumentative strategy there.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415422000449