Kant and the table of nothing
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At the very end of the Transcendental Analytic Kant argues that the two concepts something/possible and nothing/impossible, which constitute the starting point of traditional ontology, are not in fact the highest concepts. Instead, these two opposed concepts stand under a higher concept, namely the concept of an object in general, and result from that concept’s division. Both the concept of something and that of nothing can be divided in accordance with the table of categories, resulting in two tables: . the table of the division of the concept of something, and . the table of the division of the concept of nothing. Kant only provides the table of nothing, noting that the corresponding division of something follows straightforwardly.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016