ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the Kant's tenet that perceptual consciousness, in the strict sense of that term, involves certain a priori principles of understanding. Kant propounds his theory of sensible intuition chiefly in the Transcendental Aesthetic. Kant recommends, in the Transcendental Aesthetic, a certain theory of mathematical knowledge, and seeks to lay, there and elsewhere in the Critique, the foundation for a theory of the natural sciences. The expression inner intuition, as it is used by Kant, denotes simply that species of awareness which is not concerned with spatial relations. Space is not an empirical concept which has been abstracted from outer experiences. Space is a necessary a priori representation which underlies all outer intuitions. Supersensible entities, or things-in-themselves, must be defined as realities such as would be the objects of a mind equipped with a faculty of intellectual intuition.
