What is Kants theory of transcendental deduction?
This is Kant’s name in ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’ For the reason that simultaneously justifies both the applicability of the of the pure concepts of the understanding to objects of experience and the objectivity of experience itself. The term deduction here is borrowed from contemporary jurisprudence regarding the need to address matters of right as well as of fact.. Starting from the fact that all of my representations are grasped together in one consciousness (the unity of apperception), the argument asserts that such unity is possible only because synthesised according to the rules contained in the pure concepts. A.H, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2005, Page: 923 H.E. Allison, Kant’s Trancendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defence (New Haven, Conn., 1983), Chapter 7.
