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Critick of Pure Reason, Tr. [by F. Haywood].
Critick of Pure Reason Tr - by F. Haywood Author:Immanuel Kant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: OF TRANSCENDENTAL ELEMENTARY SCIENCE. SECOND PART. TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC. INTRODUCTION. IDEA OF A TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC. OF LOGIC IN GENERAL. Our cognition springs from two fundamental sources of the mind, the first of which is, to receive representations (the receptivity of the impressions) ; the second, the faculty by means of those represnta- tions of cognizing an object, (spontaneity of the conceptions). Through the former an object is given to us. By the second this (object) is thought in relationship with such representation (as mere determination of the mind). Intuition and conceptions form therefore the elements of all our cognition; so that neither conceptions without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without conceptions, could produce cognition. Both are either pure or empirical. Empirical, if sensation (which presupposes the real presence of the object) is contained therein ; but pure, if with the representation no sensation is mixed. We may term the latter the matter of sensible cognition. Pure intuition contains consequently only the Form under which something is envisaged and pure conception only the form of thought of an object in general. But pure intuitions or conceptions are only possible a priori, and empirical only« less