The Text of the Middle View

Abstract

We have argued that a consequence of the transition from the early to the middle view is the incorporation of three relational categories. We have already seen evidence of this incorporation in the middle Deduction and in the middle Phenomena and Noumena passage. Now we claim that the early Second Analogy text is reworked at the middle stage into a text that topically covers all three relational categories. This text, set out according to topic, is as follows -

• (i) Substance: A204, B249-A206, B251 (P. 228–229)

• (ii) Causality: A194, B239-A204, B249 (P. 222–228)

• (iii) Reciprocal Influence: A214, B261-A215, B262 (P. 236)

The discussion of substance thus follows the discussion of causation in the test and so is not yet separated off into a separate (First Analogy) section.¹ Further the one paragraph concerning reciprocal influence also was probably not separated out at this time² and rather just followed the discussion of substance.