Five ways in which Kant impeded the discovery of the mind. The so-called patchwork theory

Immanuel Kant impeded the discovery of the mind in five ways by establishing a misguided "transcendental" method, by persuading generations of philosophers those serious and important studies, and finally by insisting that in philosophical analyses of the mind hypotheses are illegitimate and certainty and necessity are requirements. The Critique of Pure Reason is a stylistic atrocity that one must ask-and scholars have long asked-how it came to be written the way it was. One of the most eminent German Kant scholars, Hans Vaihinger, proposed the so-called patchwork theory, and Norman Kemp Smith propagated it in his immensely interesting commentary. Kant's Critique, of course, differs from Genesis in a multitude of ways and is assuredly not a masterpiece of literature whose poetic beauty has never been surpassed. In addition to Kant's own words, the inconsistencies in the Grundlegung are also highly relevant.