ABSTRACT
We turn from the Transcendental Deduction to the Principles with the fairly definite hope that the significance of the general conclusions argued for in the Deduction will be made clearer and that, in the process, those conclusions themselves will be more firmly established. For really the argument of the Deduction as I have interpreted it is too general and too obscure to have more than a precarious hold on our minds. We have the doctrine that some form of concept-carried connectedness among experiences such as to constitute them experiences of an objective world is a necessary condition of the possibility of experience in general. The hold of the doctrine would undoubtedly be strengthened by definite and acceptable arguments to the effect that certain specific forms of concept-carried connectedness are necessarily involved in a possible experience. And such arguments, it is understood, are to be looked for in the Principles.
