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In his 1770 Inaugural Dissertation, Kant explores the mechanisms of projection involved in logical judgments. He discovers three types: (1) the projection of the subjective onto the objective, (2) the projection of the intelligible onto the sensitive, and (3) the projection of predicates onto a grammatical subject. In 1781, in the Critique of Pure Reason, he points out three possible errors in logical judgments: (1) the projection from the subject onto the object (Amphiboly), (2) the projection back from the subject onto the subject (Paralogism), and (3) the projection from the predicate onto the subject or the object (Antinomy). Kant thereby anticipates a critique of German Idealism and contemporary metaphysics—which are all conceivable as variants of projections in logical judgments.
Translated by Michael Kolodziej
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Immanuel Kant, Theoretical Philosophy, 1755–1770 (TP), ed. and trans. David Walford in collaboration with Ralf Meerbote (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 375; Ak., 2: 385. Citations of Kant provide the pagination of the English translation followed by that of the Kants gesammelte Schriften, ed. Königlichen Preußischen (later Deutschen) Akademie der Wissenschaften, 29 vols (Berlin: Georg Reimer [later Walter de Gruyter], 1900–). References to the Akademie edition are given by the abbreviation Ak., volume and page number.
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Immanuel Kant, Conflict of the Faculties, in Religion and Rational Theology, ed. and trans. Allen W. Wood and George di Giovanni (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 290; Ak., 7: 71.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason [hereinafter cited parenthetically as CRP], trans. Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), B 136.
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Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, in Practical Philosophy, ed. and trans. Mary J. Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 239; Ak., 5: 123.
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Rauer, C. (2016). Kant’s Philosophy of Projection: The Camera Obscura of the Inaugural Dissertation . In: McGrath, S., Carew, J. (eds) Rethinking German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53514-6_2
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