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Kant, the Third Antinomy and Transcendental Arguments
Author(s) -
Gava Gabriele
Publication year - 2019
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/papq.12267
Subject(s) - antinomy , transcendental number , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , domain (mathematical analysis) , epistemology , arrow , mathematics , mathematical economics , computer science , mathematical analysis , chemistry , biochemistry , programming language
In this paper, I consider whether a reading of Kant's solution to the Third Antinomy can offer material for devising a new model of transcendental argument. The problem that this form of argument is meant to address is an antinomy between two apparently contradictory claims, q and ¬ q , where we seem equally justified in holding both. The model has the following form: p ; q is a necessary condition of p ; the only justification we have for q is that it is a necessary condition of p ; p is justified only in domain X (where X is a domain of objects of cognition); therefore, q is justified only in domain X . Because the argument shows that our justification for q is valid only in X , it also establishes that there is conceptual space to hold ¬ q outside of X .