Somehow I find it amusing that Kant thinks his table is uncommonly useful, a little egotistic don't you think? (CPR214) He goes on to show how his table of Categories have some bearing on the nature of understanding, such as the mathematical and the dynamical categories. Unity, truth, and perfection are the criteria of all cognition of things, which I believe Kant is emphasizing in the last bit of his doctrine of The Analytic of concepts.
Kant's second chapter of The Transcendental Analytic begins with an examination of how concepts can relate to objects a priori, which he calls transcendental deduction, and tries to clarify its difference from empirical deduction, which is a concept acquired from experience. (CPR 220) However, due to my limited knowledge/understanding, I don't fully understand how Kant arrives to these two terms because the way I see it, our cognition allows us to deduce certain concepts whether they are attained through empirical means or a priori. In other words, how is it that deductions itself can be distinguished from empirical or a priori?
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