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Full Idea
Kant provided a 'metaphysical deduction' of the categories by deriving them from the fundamental forms of judgement. He also gave a 'transcendental deduction' of the categories ...as the indispensable conditions of our knowledge and experience of objects
Gist of Idea
Kant deduced the categories from our judgements, and then as preconditions of experience
Source
report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 02 'From indeterminate'
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.31
A Reaction
I'm suspicious of the second method, because it seems that all you can do is make up an explanation of experience, with very little to go on, because it is hidden. Analysing the way we make judgements is more interesting.
21759 | Kant deduced the categories from our judgements, and then as preconditions of experience [Kant, by Houlgate] |
19655 | Kant says we can describe the categories of thought, but Hegel claims to deduce them [Kant, by Meillassoux] |
5544 | Four groups of categories of concept: Quantity, Quality, Relation and Modality [Kant] |
5547 | The categories are objectively valid, because they make experience possible [Kant] |
5552 | Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances [Kant] |
21986 | Hegel's system has a vast number of basic concepts [Hegel, by Moore,AW] |