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An introduction to Kant’s transcendental aesthetic requires a look at the general character of transcendental philosophy. Kant introduces the subject in his Critique of Pure Reason, saying, “I entitle transcendental all knowledge which is occupied not so much with objects as with the mode of our knowledge of objects in so far as this mode of knowledge is to be possible a priori. A system of such concepts might be entitled transcendental philosophy.”1 Events very quickly proved to Kant that this explanation itself required some explaining. What happened sheds some light on his concept of transcendental philosophy.
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Smyth, R.A. (1978). The Elements of Knowledge. In: Forms of Intuition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9668-7_1
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