The Affinity and Experience
Transcendental Deduction (A) Section II subsection 4. concerning the relationship between experience and the transcendental affinity assumed of all specters whosoever.
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Hume’s Law of Association and Kant’s Rule of Association
Basically an explanation of the presentation of Section II.2 of the A version of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories. Kant shows what is necessary in order for Hume to recognize his Law of Association. Unedited.
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Thing on its Own and the Spectral Object
Looking to clarify what I take to be the role of the thing on its own (das Ding an sich) and the object of experience; any how the transcendental object = nature.
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Objects of the Specters/Erscheinungen
How the understanding determines all objects to be found in the specters, and how, at the same time, we are certain of a transcendental affinity subjecting all specters to laws of a nature (which is the categorical understanding). Its the choice between treating the specter as a thing on its own, or as the representation of some object.
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The Affinity and the Apperception
Most current exposition of the concepts of affinity and apperception. I think it is getting clearer, but am never sure.
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Draft Lecture on Kant’s Affinity of the Specters/Erscheinungen
Trying to fathom Kant’s Deduction of the Categories and especially the pre-judgment that all specters are of a single nature and then the only objects that could ever be recognized by us in these specters, namely that they conform of a law of a nature (which is the unity of the categories).
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Transcendental Object = Nature, and the Consciousness of Self
Concise consideration of the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories with the three prong tie in of affinity of the specters/Erscheinungen/appearances and the provision of an object via the pure concepts of understanding and the unification of consciousness in an identical consciousness of self. not edited.
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From Anschauung to Affinity
Suggested approach to university students in considering Kant’s conception of human knowledge and especially the Anschauung and the Deduction and the Affinity of all the specters. I’ll edit it tomorrow. I think it is getting better.
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Transcendental Affinity of all the Specters/Erscheinungen
This is a first draft of an exposition of the A version of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction of the Categories.
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Self, Manifold and the Affinity of the Specters/
Semi-focused thinking on the affinity of all specters and how this affinity can only be a manifold in our consciousness in a certain way, and so how the nature which all specters represent can be recognized empirically must accord with the unity of apperception.
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