KANTS TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENTS

Abstract

I present an analysis of Kantian transcendental arguments via the following scheme of the Kantian form of transcendental arguments: the assertion of relevant facts, definitions, principles of knowledge (i.e., the existence of some synthetic statements a priori) searching for necessary conditions for those facts to obtain, etc. (regress from experience to its conditions) => determining the mode of presentation of necessary conditions (i.e., as pure subjective capacities of human consciousness) => finding of necessary conditions for those (subjective) capacities of pure consciousness as the sources of all objective and valid necessary conditions for some relevant facts, etc. => derivation of important consequences (or developing of some system of transcendental knowledge). However, there must be some transcendental guide of the argument given at the beginning of argumentation. This guide presents us a purely-subjective capacity of knowledge (i.e., the capacity of a purely-spatial form of intuition) with the help of special transcendental abstraction.