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A PUZZLE ABOUT INCONGRUENT COUNTERPARTS AND THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
Author(s) -
SEVERO ROGÉRIO PASSOS
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2007.00305.x
Subject(s) - epistemology , relevance (law) , philosophy , persistence (discontinuity) , presentation (obstetrics) , space (punctuation) , work (physics) , linguistics , law , medicine , geotechnical engineering , political science , radiology , engineering , mechanical engineering
Kant uses incongruent counterparts in his work before and after 1781, but not in the first Critique . Given the relevance that incongruent counterparts had for his thought on space, and their persistence in his work during the 1780s, it is plausible to think that he had a reason for leaving them out of both editions of the Critique . Two implausible conjectures for their absence are here considered and rejected. A more plausible alternative is put forth, which explains that textual absence as a result of the synthetic method of presentation intended for the Critique .