ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the gradual development of I. Kant's views on time within the Critique of Pure Reason and the conflicting tendencies which they reveal. In "The Aesthetic", Kant said that space and time were empirically real, but transcendentally ideal: by this he attempted to reconcile two apparently contradictory findings of our experience. As soon as Kant proceeds to formulate and deduce the categories, he discovers that the position he took up in the "Aesthetic" with regard to space and time was insufficient. In the Analogies, the three rules of all relations of appearances in time are conceived as corresponding with the three modes of time—duration, succession, and coexistence. The Analogies are rules which are "prior to all experience and even make it possible", and time plays a very important part in the formulation of this essential doctrine in Kant's reply to D. Hume.
