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The work investigates the conditions, scope, and limits of human cognition by examining how sensory intuitions and concepts combine to produce knowledge a priori. It analyzes space and time as forms of sensibility, derives fundamental categories of the understanding and their transcendental deduction, and distinguishes legitimate theoretical use of reason from its dialectical illusions. Through a structural division into aesthetic, analytic, and dialectic sections, it defends that knowledge pertains to appearances shaped by cognitive forms while things-in-themselves remain unknowable, and it provides a method for delimiting metaphysical claims and resolving antinomies of pure reason.

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Title: The Critique of Pure Reason

Author: Immanuel Kant

Translator: J. M. D. Meiklejohn

Release date: July 1, 2003 [eBook #4280]
Most recently updated: May 12, 2025

Language: English

Credits: Charles Aldarondo and David Widger

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The Critique of Pure Reason

By Immanuel Kant

Translated by J. M. D. Meiklejohn


Contents

Preface to the First Edition (1781)

Preface to the Second Edition (1787)

Introduction
I. Transcendental Doctrine of Elements
First Part—TRANSCENDENTAL ÆSTHETIC
Second Part—TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC
Introduction. Idea of a Transcendental Logic
FIRST DIVISION—TRANSCENDENTAL ANALYTIC
BOOK I. Analytic of Conceptions. § 2
Chapter I. Of the Transcendental Clue to the Discovery of all Pure Conceptions of the Understanding
Chapter II. Of the Deduction of the Pure Conception of the Understanding
BOOK II. Analytic of Principles
APPENDIX.
SECOND DIVISION—TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC
TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC. INTRODUCTION.
TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC—BOOK I—OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON.
TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC—BOOK II—OF THE DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE OF PURE REASON.
Chapter I. Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason.
Chapter II. The Antinomy of Pure Reason.
Chapter III. The Ideal of Pure Reason.
Appendix. Of the Regulative Employment of the Ideas of Pure Reason.

II. Transcendental Doctrine of Method