Transcendental Logic and the Doctrine of Quantity

Abstract

This chapter is an analysis of the meaning of quantity in the transcendental logic of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. I begin this chapter with an analysis of Kant’s description of the specific project of transcendental logic. This analysis emphasizes the way in which Kant uses general logic as a contrast to define the transcendental logic. I turn then to analysis of the meaning of quantity within transcendental logic. I argue that since the Analytic of Concepts does not offer a full transcendental exposition of quantity as a category, but the Analytic of Principles does, and since Kant calls the Analytic of Principles a doctrine because it represents a conclusion of the Transcendental Analytic, we ought to base our interpretation of quantity in transcendental logic on the Analytic of Principles. It is the first two chapters of the Analytic of Principles that provide us with what I will call Kant’s transcendental doctrine of quantity. The sole project of this chapter is to highlight the treatment of quantity in the Transcendental Analytic, so as to set up the comparison of transcendental logic and general logic in the next chapter.