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University of South Carolina

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2008

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"An Almost Single Inference": Kant's Deduction Of The Categories Reconsidered, Konstantin Pollok Dec 2008

"An Almost Single Inference": Kant's Deduction Of The Categories Reconsidered, Konstantin Pollok

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By taking into account some texts published between the first and the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason that have been neglected by most of those who have dealt with the deduction of the categories, I argue that the core of the deduction is to be identified as the 'almost single inference from the precisely determined definition of a judgment in general,' which Kant adumbrates in the Metaphysical Foundations in order to 'make up for the deficiency' of the A-deduction. Whereas the first step of the B-deduction is an attempt to show that the manifold of an intuition …


Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott Jul 2008

Book Review: Nanoethics: The Ethical And Social Implications Of Nanotechnology, Kevin Elliott

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