Kantian Concept

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A Kantian Concept is an abstract concept as proposed by Immanuel Kant.



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2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_(Kant) Retrieved:2015-9-27.
    • In Kant's philosophy, a category is a pure concept of the understanding. A Kantian category is a characteristic of the appearance of any object in general, before it has been experienced. Kant wrote that "They are concepts of an object in general…." [1] Kant also wrote that, "…pure cоncepts [Categories] of the undеrstanding…apply to objects of intuition in general…." [2] Such a category is not a classificatory division, as the word is commonly used. It is, instead, the condition of the possibility of objects in general, [3] that is, objects as such, any and all objects, not specific objects in particular.
  1. Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, B129, (Sie sind Begriffe von einem Gegenstande überhaupt)
  2. Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, § 79 (reine Verstandesbegriffe, welche a priori auf Gegenstände der Anschauung überhaupt gehen)
  3. Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason, A 139

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