ABSTRACT
Kant’s Vindication offered to explain our knowledge of worldly connections as derived from structural elements contributed by us to our experience. To show that Space is of this a priori character, he appeals to our possession of geometry, a sound deductive science. Kant’s Vindication theory of physics is modelled on his theory of geometry. Kant’s Vindication has many other transcendental arguments. Each starts from some given item of knowledge, and concludes to some ‘prior’ fact which ‘makes that knowledge possible’. The extra and initial stage of the vindicating–argument is to show that in assembling Things we must use just those templates or modes–of–assembly to which the linking ‘is’ was said to correspond. Anyone using p-circular argument in proof may be asked which he has in mind to prove, the conclusion or the premisses.
