...proof, it is not to be called a dogma, but rather a principle ; because it has the strange peculiarity that it makes possible the very experience which is its own ground of proof and in such experience requires always to be presupposed." 1 In other words, if we take the conception...

...should be entitled a principle, not a theorem^ because it has the peculiar character that it mahes possible the very experience which is its own ground of proof, and in this experience must always itself be presupposed." ^ Before making further comment upon Kant's...

...never be known a priori.... [Such a principle] should be entitled a principle, not a theorem, because it has the peculiar character that it makes possible the very experience that is its own ground of proof, and that in this experience it must always itself be presupposed....

...Transcendental Deductions. 47 Kant notes this circularity in his comment that the transcendental deduction "has the peculiar character that it makes possible...proof, and that in this experience it must always be presupposed" (CPR, A737/B765). For a useful discussion of this point, see Riidiger Bubner, "Kant,...

...actually stands, the actual ground of one's experience. Kant writes: ". . . the synthetic a priori has the peculiar character that it makes possible...very experience which is its own ground of proof, and in this experience it must always itself be presupposed." So, in this sense, coming to Kant, and a...

...^principle, not a theorem, because it has the peculiar character that it makes possible 0 )Lehrspriiche. \ the very experience which is its own ground of proof,...this experience it must always itself be presupposed. Now if in the speculative employment of pure reason there are no dogmas, to serve as its special subject-matter,P...

...that a transcendental argument must take. What is required, he argues, is a proof of a principle which 'has the peculiar character that it makes possible the very experience which is its own ground of proof'35 — in other words, what we require is 'a legitimate proof that carries with it a transcendental...

...apodeictic certainty. But though it needs proof, it should be entitled a principle, not a theorem, because it has the peculiar character that it makes possible...experience it must always itself be presupposed.' Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, particular person ever to assert truly. For example, Descartes cannot...

...can say that any principle of the understanding has "the peculiar character that it [the principle] makes possible the very experience which is its own ground of proof " ^737=8765), and this implies not only that experience would not be possible without these categories,...

...further confirmation of this truth. "The proposition that everything which happens has its cause . . . has the peculiar character that it makes possible...must always itself be presupposed" (A 737/B 765). We cannot make sound causal inferences as to what is the case beyond the realm of phenomena. The limits...