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The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant - Judgments, Categories and Imagination

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The Metaphysical Deduction

Hume failed to appreciate that there is experience, but what he neglected was the conditions for there to be that experience. Without both, we would merely have a barrage of sensations with no ability to understand them or associate them into any coherent whole. So then, really with this, Hume was correct all along, right? What we cannot experience, we simply cannot know that's the Humean position, that is understand. And within a section of the analytic, which is commonly known as the metaphysical deduction, the actual section is called the clue to discovery of all pure concepts of the understanding. Can't argue that a specific set of 12 concepts are privileged. I'll get to them later.

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