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Full Idea

To analyze a concept is to become self-conscious of the manifold that I always think in it.

Gist of Idea

Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B011/A7)

Book Ref

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.141

The 219 ideas from 'Critique of Pure Reason'

12767 Kant exposed the illusions of reason in the Transcendental Dialectic [Kant, by Fraassen]
7918 Kant turned metaphysics into epistemology, ignoring Aristotle's 'being qua being' [Kant, by Macdonald,C]
21462 It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner]
9752 Kant showed that theoretical reason cannot give answers to speculative metaphysics [Kant, by Korsgaard]
6584 A priori metaphysics is fond of basic unchanging entities like God, the soul, Forms, atoms… [Kant, by Fogelin]
18236 Reason keeps asking why until explanation is complete [Kant, by Korsgaard]
9632 Kant only accepts potential infinity, not actual infinity [Kant, by Brown,JR]
3343 Euclid's could be the only viable geometry, if rejection of the parallel line postulate doesn't lead to a contradiction [Benardete,JA on Kant]
8739 Geometry studies the Euclidean space that dictates how we perceive things [Kant, by Shapiro]
12421 Kant's intuitions struggle to judge relevance, impossibility and exactness [Kitcher on Kant]
12458 Kant taught that mathematics is independent of logic, and cannot be grounded in it [Kant, by Hilbert]
6160 Does Kant say the mind imposes categories, or that it restricts us to them? [Rowlands on Kant]
17772 Kant claims causal powers are relational rather than intrinsic [Kant, by Bayne]
7416 Kant is read as the phenomena being 'contrained' by the noumenon, or 'free-floating' [Talbot on Kant]
7576 The Identity of Indiscernibles is true of concepts with identical properties, but not of particulars [Kant, by Jolley]
23461 Kant thought worldly necessities are revealed by what maths needs to make sense [Kant, by Morris,M]
14710 Necessity is always knowable a priori, and what is known a priori is always necessary [Kant, by Schroeter]
16256 For Kant metaphysics must be necessary, so a priori, so can't be justified by experience [Kant, by Maudlin]
16898 Understanding essentially involves singular elements [Kant, by Burge]
20944 Knowledge is threefold: apprehension, reproduction by imagination, recognition by concepts [Kant, by Bowie]
6909 In Kantian idealism, objects fit understanding, not vice versa [Kant, by Feuerbach]
6910 Kant's idealism is a limited idealism based on the viewpoint of empiricism [Kant, by Feuerbach]
21440 For Kant experience is either structured like reality, or generates reality's structure [Kant, by Gardner]
22006 The concepts that make judgeable experiences possible are created spontaneously [Kant, by Pinkard]
15627 Kant showed that the understanding (unlike reason) concerns what is finite and conditioned [Kant, by Hegel]
22003 We have no sensual experience of time and space, so they must be 'ideal' [Kant, by Pinkard]
21456 Objects having to be experiencable is not the same as full idealism [Gardner on Kant]
9156 Kant's shift of view enables us to see a priority in terms of mental capacity, not truth and propositions [Burge on Kant]
7575 A priori knowledge is limited to objects of possible experience [Kant, by Jolley]
5404 Two plus two objects make four objects even if experience is impossible, so Kant is wrong [Russell on Kant]
3342 Seeing that only one parallel can be drawn to a line through a given point is clearly synthetic a priori [Kant, by Benardete,JA]
20943 Kant bases the synthetic a priori on the categories of oneness and manyness [Kant, by Bowie]
5402 Kant showed that we have a priori knowledge which is not purely analytic [Kant, by Russell]
5203 We can think of 7 and 5 without 12, but it is still a contradiction to deny 7+5=12 [Ayer on Kant]
5403 If, as Kant says, arithmetic and logic are contributed by us, they could change if we did [Russell on Kant]
18262 For Kant analytic knowledge needs complex concepts, but the a priori can rest on the simple [Coffa on Kant]
2774 Kant says the cognitive and sensory elements in experience can't be separated [Kant, by Dancy,J]
22005 Associations and causes cannot explain content, which needs norms of judgement [Kant, by Pinkard]
7070 Kant says knowledge is when our representations sufficiently conform to our concepts [Kant, by Critchley]
4708 Kant thought he had refuted scepticism, but his critics say he is a sceptic, for rejecting reality [O'Grady on Kant]
6578 For Kant, experience is relative to a scheme, but there are no further possible schemes [Kant, by Fogelin]
4086 Kant thought that consciousness depends on self-consciousness ('apperception') [Kant, by Crane]
2869 Kant's only answer as to how synthetic a priori judgements are possible was that we have a 'faculty'! [Nietzsche on Kant]
6577 For Kant, our conceptual scheme is disastrous when it reaches beyond experience [Kant, by Fogelin]
8736 Kantian intuitions are of particulars, and they give immediate knowledge [Kant, by Shapiro]
9751 To some extent we must view ourselves as noumena [Kant, by Korsgaard]
9756 We must be free, because we can act against our strongest desires [Kant, by Korsgaard]
8687 Kantian 'intuition' is the bridge between pure reason and its application to sense experiences [Kant, by Friend]
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]
8735 Kant implies that concepts have analysable parts [Kant, by Shapiro]
7314 How can bachelor 'contain' unmarried man? Are all analytic truths in subject-predicate form? [Miller,A on Kant]
22004 Concepts are rules for combining representations [Kant, by Pinkard]
8734 Non-subject/predicate tautologies won't fit Kant's definition of analyticity [Shapiro on Kant]
22052 Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
8256 Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell]
9755 The concept of causality entails laws; random causality is a contradiction [Kant, by Korsgaard]
17709 We judge causation by relating events together by some law of nature [Kant, by Mares]
19669 For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux]
19672 Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]
6916 For Kant, essence is mental and a mere idea, and existence is the senses and mere appearance [Kant, by Feuerbach]
8451 Existence is merely derived from the word 'is' (rather than being a predicate) [Kant, by Orenstein]
3321 Modern logic says (with Kant) that existence is not a predicate, because it has been reclassified as a quantifier [Benardete,JA on Kant]
13732 Kant never denied that 'exist' could be a predicate - only that it didn't enlarge concepts [Kant, by Fitting/Mendelsohn]
21439 Religion and legislation can only be respected if they accept free and public examination [Kant]
18794 Logic has precise boundaries, and is the formal rules for all thinking [Kant]
21438 Metaphysics might do better to match objects to our cognition (and not start with the objects) [Kant]
9345 Propositions involving necessity are a priori, and pure a priori if they only derive from other necessities [Kant]
12414 A priori knowledge occurs absolutely independently of all experience [Kant]
16893 The apriori is independent of its sources, and marked by necessity and generality [Kant, by Burge]
9346 Judgements which are essentially and strictly universal reveal our faculty of a priori cognition [Kant]
9347 A priori knowledge is indispensable for the possibility and certainty of experience [Kant]
5523 Causation obviously involves necessity, so it cannot just be frequent association [Kant]
9348 Experienceless bodies have space; propertyless bodies have substance; this must be seen a priori [Kant]
9349 A dove cutting through the air, might think it could fly better in airless space (which Plato attempted) [Kant]
9350 Our reason mostly analyses concepts we already have of objects [Kant]
9351 One sort of a priori knowledge just analyses given concepts, but another ventures further [Kant]
20291 If the predicate is contained in the subject of a judgement, it is analytic; otherwise synthetic [Kant]
20292 Analytic judgements clarify, by analysing the subject into its component predicates [Kant]
18259 Analysis is becoming self-conscious about our concepts [Kant]
5524 Maths must be a priori because it is necessary, and that cannot be derived from experience [Kant]
5525 No analysis of the sum of seven and five will in itself reveal twelve [Kant]
5526 With large numbers it is obvious that we could never find the sum by analysing the concepts [Kant]
5527 That a straight line is the shortest is synthetic, as straight does not imply any quantity [Kant]
5528 That force and counter-force are equal is necessary, and a priori synthetic [Kant]
5529 The real problem of pure reason is: how are a priori synthetic judgments possible? [Kant]
16611 You just can't stop metaphysical speculation, in any mature mind [Kant]
5530 Analysis of our concepts is merely a preparation for proper a priori metaphysics [Kant]
21442 'Transcendental' cognition concerns what can be known a priori of its mode [Kant]
23454 Appearances have a 'form', which indicates a relational order [Kant]
17736 We can't learn of space through experience; experience of space needs its representation [Kant]
5531 Space is an a priori necessary basic intuition, as we cannot imagine its absence [Kant]
5532 Colours and tastes are not qualities of things, but alterations of the subject [Kant]
5533 Objects in themselves are not known to us at all [Kant]
5534 One can never imagine appearances without time, so it is given a priori [Kant]
5535 That times cannot be simultaneous is synthetic, so it is known by intuition, not analysis [Kant]
5536 If space and time exist absolutely, we must assume the existence of two pointless non-entities [Kant]
19386 Without the subject or the senses, space and time vanish, as their appearances disappear [Kant]
21446 If we disappeared, then all relations of objects, and time and space themselves, disappear too [Kant]
21445 Even the most perfect intuition gets no closer to things in themselves [Kant]
5537 That two lines cannot enclose a space is an intuitive a priori synthetic proposition [Kant]
5538 Understanding has no intuitions, and senses no thought, so knowledge needs their unity [Kant]
17616 Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind [Kant]
5539 We must presuppose that truth is agreement of cognition with its objects [Kant]
5540 Cleverness is shown in knowing what can reasonably be asked [Kant]
5541 A sufficient but general sign of truth cannot possibly be provided [Kant]
5542 There must be a general content-free account of truth in the rules of logic [Kant]
5543 All human cognition is through concepts [Kant]
22443 We are seldom aware of imagination, but we would have no cognition at all without it [Kant]
5544 Four groups of categories of concept: Quantity, Quality, Relation and Modality [Kant]
5545 Appearances give rules of what usually happens, but cause involves necessity [Kant]
5546 Are a priori concepts necessary as a precondition for something to be an object? [Kant]
21449 The a priori concept of objects in general is the ground of experience [Kant]
5547 The categories are objectively valid, because they make experience possible [Kant]
21448 Categories are general concepts of objects, which determine the way in which they are experienced [Kant]
21450 Representation would be impossible without the 'I think' that accompanies it [Kant]
5549 Mental representations would not be mine if they did not belong to a unified self-consciousness [Kant]
5550 A substance could exist as a subject, but not as a mere predicate [Kant]
23697 I exist just as an intelligence aware of its faculty for combination [Kant]
5551 I have no cognition of myself as I am, but only as I appear to myself [Kant]
5552 Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances [Kant]
5553 Either experience creates concepts, or concepts make experience possible [Kant]
5554 Categories are necessary, so can't be implanted in us to agree with natural laws [Kant]
5555 Philosophical examples rarely fit rules properly, and lead to inflexibility [Kant]
5556 A pure concept of the understanding can never become an image [Kant]
8737 Kant suggested that arithmetic has no axioms [Kant, by Shapiro]
5557 Axioms ought to be synthetic a priori propositions [Kant]
2795 If 7+5=12 is analytic, then an infinity of other ways to reach 12 have to be analytic [Kant, by Dancy,J]
5558 7+5=12 is not analytic, because 12 is not contained in 7 or 5 or their combination [Kant]
5559 Sensations are a posteriori, but that they come in degrees is known a priori [Kant]
5560 The three modes of time are persistence, succession and simultaneity [Kant]
21451 All appearances need substance, as that which persists through change [Kant]
5561 If time involved succession, we must think of another time in which succession occurs [Kant]
5562 Experience is only possible because we subject appearances to causal laws [Kant]
5563 The principle of sufficient reason is the ground of possible experience in time [Kant]
14560 A ball denting a pillow seems like simultaneous cause and effect, though time identifies which is cause [Kant]
5564 Substance must exist, as the persisting substratum of the process of change [Kant]
5565 Proof of the principle of sufficient reason cannot be found [Kant]
18796 Formal experience conditions show what is possible, and general conditions what is necessary [Kant]
18797 Modalities do not augment our concepts; they express their relation to cognition [Kant]
21452 I can only determine my existence in time via external things [Kant]
5566 Is the possible greater than the actual, and the actual greater than the necessary? [Kant]
8740 Geometry would just be an idle game without its connection to our intuition [Kant]
17617 Maths is a priori, but without its relation to empirical objects it is meaningless [Kant]
5567 A priori the understanding can only anticipate possible experiences [Kant]
5568 We cannot know things in themselves, but are confined to appearances [Kant]
5569 We cannot represent objects unless we combine concepts with intuitions [Kant]
14509 If we ignore differences between water drops, we still distinguish them by their location [Kant]
5570 Self-knowledge can only be inner sensation, and thus appearance [Kant]
22274 'Transcendent' is beyond experience, and 'transcendental' is concealed within experience [Kant, by Potter]
5571 Reason contains within itself certain underived concepts and principles [Kant]
5572 Reason has logical and transcendental faculties [Kant]
5573 Reason is distinct from understanding, and is the faculty of rules or principles [Kant]
5575 An obvious idea is a constitution based on maximum mutual freedom for citizens [Kant]
5576 We cannot derive moral laws from experience, as it is the mother of illusion [Kant]
5577 Transcendental ideas require unity of the subject, conditions of appearance, and objects of thought [Kant]
5578 Pure reason deals with concepts in the understanding, not with objects [Kant]
5581 We have proved that bodies are appearances of the outer senses, not things in themselves [Kant]
5582 As balls communicate motion, so substances could communicate consciousness, but not retain identity [Kant]
5583 We need an account of the self based on rational principles, to avoid materialism [Kant]
5584 All objections are dogmatic (against propositions), or critical (against proofs), or sceptical [Kant]
5585 Soul and body connect physically, or by harmony, or by assistance [Kant]
5586 The voyage of reason may go only as far as the coastline of experience reaches [Kant]
2965 For Kant the self is a purely formal idea, not a substance [Kant, by Lockwood]
5589 Neither materialism nor spiritualism can reveal the separate existence of the soul [Kant]
5590 'I think therefore I am' is an identity, not an inference (as there is no major premise) [Kant]
5591 Reason must assume as necessary that everything in a living organism has a proportionate purpose [Kant]
5592 Scepticism is the euthanasia of pure reason [Kant]
5593 Reason generates no concepts, but frees them from their link to experience in the understanding [Kant]
5594 Natural necessity is the unconditioned necessity of appearances [Kant]
21454 The battle of the antinomies is usually won by the attacker, and lost by any defender [Kant]
5595 Scepticism is absurd in maths, where there are no hidden false assertions [Kant]
5596 We must assume an absolute causal spontaneity beginning from itself [Kant]
5597 If there is a first beginning, there can be other sequences initiated from nothing [Kant]
5598 If you prove God cosmologically, by a regress in the sequences of causes, you can't abandon causes at the end [Kant]
5599 Without God, creation and free will, morality would be empty [Kant]
5600 Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant]
21956 Everything we intuit is merely a representation, with no external existence (Transcendental Idealism) [Kant]
5601 There are possible inhabitants of the moon, but they are just possible experiences [Kant]
5602 The free dialectic opposition of arguments is an invaluable part of the sceptical method [Kant]
21455 We only understand what exists, and can find no sign of what ought to be in nature [Kant]
5603 Pure reason exists outside of time [Kant]
5604 In reason things can only begin if they are voluntary [Kant]
5605 Moral blame is based on reason, since a reason is a cause which should have been followed [Kant]
5606 Freedom and natural necessity do not contradict, as they relate to different conditions [Kant]
5607 Only three proofs of God: the physico-theological (evidence), the cosmological (existence), the ontological (a priori) [Kant]
18795 A concept is logically possible if non-contradictory (but may not be actually possible) [Kant]
5609 If 'this exists' is analytic, either the thing is a thought, or you have presupposed its existence [Kant]
5608 Is "This thing exists" analytic or synthetic? [Kant]
5610 If an existential proposition is synthetic, you must be able to cancel its predicate without contradiction [Kant]
5611 Being is not a real predicate, that adds something to a concept [Kant]
5612 You add nothing to the concept of God or coins if you say they exist [Kant]
4475 Saying a thing 'is' adds nothing to it - otherwise if my concept exists, it isn't the same as my concept [Kant]
5613 The analytic mark of possibility is that it does not generate a contradiction [Kant]
5615 Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant]
5616 Pure reason is only concerned with itself because it deals with understandings, not objects [Kant]
5617 Knowledge begins with intuitions, moves to concepts, and ends with ideas [Kant]
16899 Geometrical truth comes from a general schema abstracted from a particular object [Kant, by Burge]
18264 We know the shape of a cone from its concept, but we don't know its colour [Kant]
5618 Definitions exhibit the exhaustive concept of a thing within its boundaries [Kant]
5619 No a priori concept can be defined [Kant]
5620 Philosophy has no axioms, as it is just rational cognition of concepts [Kant]
5621 The existence of reason depends on the freedom of citizens to agree, doubt and veto ideas [Kant]
5622 The boundaries of reason can only be determined a priori [Kant]
5623 If I know the earth is a sphere, and I am on it, I can work out its area from a small part [Kant]
5624 We possess synthetic a priori knowledge in our principles which anticipate experience [Kant]
5626 An a priori principle of persistence anticipates all experience [Kant]
23696 Transcendental cognition is that a priori thought which shows how the a priori is applicable or possible [Kant]
5627 I can express the motion of my body in a single point, but that doesn't mean it is a simple substance [Kant]
5628 Reason hates to be limited in its speculations [Kant]
5629 If a proposition implies any false consequences, then it is false [Kant]
5630 Our concept of an incorporeal nature is merely negative [Kant]
5631 Reason is only interested in knowledge, actions and hopes [Kant]
5632 Moral laws are commands, which must involve promises and threats, which only God could provide [Kant]
5633 We don't accept duties as coming from God, but assume they are divine because they are duties [Kant]
5634 Opinion is subjectively and objectively insufficient; belief is subjective but not objective; knowledge is both [Kant]
5635 In ordinary life the highest philosophy is no better than common understanding [Kant]
21457 Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant]
21954 Metaphysics is a systematic account of everything that can be known a priori [Kant]