ABSTRACT
Kant’s “Analytic of Principles” is in many regards the lynch-pin of the Critique of Pure Reason; it can be understood only by recognizing what Kant draws together in it from his systematic study of our basic human forms of conceptually structured judgment and our forms of sensory receptivity. This chapter begins with seven parameters of Kant’s analysis of the principles of cognitive judgment. It then epitomizes his four sets of principles of cognitive judgment: the “Axioms of Intuition”, the “Anticipations of Perception”, the “Analogies of Experience” and the “Postulates of Empirical Thinking”, his “Refutation” of empirical “Idealism”, and his Critical grounds for distinguishing between phenomena and noumena. In conclusion it diagrams Kant’s Critical account of perceptual knowledge.
