Transcendental deduction

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According to the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, transcendental deduction is the justification of the assumption of the objective validity of the categories derived from the judgment table by the proof that these are indispensable components of the - according to Kant only adequate - theoretical frame of reference within its conceptions as perceptions of Objects are interpreted.

For Kant, the underlying question was how the categories, which are the ordering mechanisms of thought, are linked to the perception that a particular object triggers when viewed. For the perception does not refer to the thing in itself , but only to the perception of this thing by a subject (i.e. by the viewer himself); but the categories are a priori , that is, necessary and general. So how can the understanding apply the superordinate categories to an empirically accidental view at all? For clarification, Kant introduces the assumption of transcendental schemata . They summarize the views and thus create the categories.

Kant uses the expression deduction in the sense of the legal parlance of the time "as the assertion of legal reasons in legal disputes". The procedure so described by Kant should therefore not be confused with a deduction in the sense of the final procedure customary in logic , but essentially contains an analytical dissection of what constitutes the concept of knowledge .

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Röd : The philosophy of the modern age. 3. Part 1: Critical Philosophy from Kant to Schopenhauer . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-31274-8 , p. 41.
  2. ↑ Martin Gessmann (ed.): Philosophical dictionary. 23rd edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-520-01323-1 : Deduction.

literature

  • Henry E. Allison: Kant's Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical-Historical Commentary , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015
  • Wolfgang Carl: The Transcendental Deduction of the Categories in the first edition of the Critique of Pure Reason. A comment . Klostermann publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1992, ISBN 3-465-02532-6 .
  • Malte Hossenfelder : Kant's Constitutional Theory and the Transcendental Deduction . de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1978.