Kant on Time II: The Law of Evidence of the Critique of Pure Reason

Kant Studien 113 (3):513-534 (2022)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Dieter Henrich ‘s “Notion of a Deduction” (1989), opened up approaches to both Deductions in terms of legal as opposed to syllogistic reasoning. Since the CpR is shot through with juridical metaphors and analogies, many points of connection suggest themselves. In this paper, I extend and modify Henrich’s approach, in order to extract a particular logic of evidence. I argue that the three syntheses of the A-Deduction correspond to parts of a deductive procedure, and that their names have been chosen to indicate this connection to the reader. Nonetheless, the principal aim of the paper is not to develop and defend these historiographical claims, but to explicate the structure of the logic of evidence in question and link it to Kant’s intended refutation of Hume. Since the procedures Kant describes are part of the law of evidence of many nations and are equally well at work in contemporary information-theory, a precise reconstruction can map directly onto contemporary problems in philosophy, physics, and informatics, without any loss of historical accuracy.

Other Versions

No versions found

Analytics

Added to PP
2022-01-11

Downloads
273 (#101,007)

6 months
15 (#203,713)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

David Hyder
University of Ottawa

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

A Treatise of Human Nature.David Hume & A. D. Lindsay - 1958 - Philosophical Quarterly 8 (33):379-380.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.John Locke - 1690 - Cleveland,: Oxford University Press UK. Edited by P. H. Nidditch.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.John Locke - 1979 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 169 (2):221-222.
Kant and the Claims of Knowledge.Paul Guyer - 1987 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

View all 9 references / Add more references