ABSTRACT
We have now completed, in a very general way, our initial portrait of Kant’s theory of mental representation. Object-concepts are material inferential rules that picture the objects of possible experience as being related to one another according to natural laws. What we have not yet seen, however, is precisely how this theory applies to the mental representations of creatures like us, specifi cally sensorily passive concept users whose forms of intuition are Space and Time. This further specifi cation of these concepts occurs throughout the Principles, but it is the Analogies, and in particular the First and Second Analogies, that will concern us here. This is because it is here that Kant’s conclusions are most directly relevant to completing his case against Hume. Recall the three important conclusions from Hume that we have been considering.
