ABSTRACT
In the first part of the Logic, the Transcendental Analytic, Immanuel Kant sets out to discover the a priori rules that the understanding employs and to establish them as conditions for the possibility of experience. In the Metaphysical Deduction, the first part of the Transcendental Analytic, Kant enumerates the pure concepts of the understanding and tries to demonstrate that the table he gives is an exhaustive list of such concepts. Pure general logic is relevant to Kant’s transcendental investigation because the unity of judgment is the same kind of unity given to representations in sensible intuition. Transcendental idealism follows from the Copernican turn. The Transcendental Deduction, in particular, is meant to vindicate the claim that they are the formal rules according to which the manifold of sensible intuition is synthesized. The Transcendental Deduction is supposed to establish the necessity of a priori constraints for making claims about the world.
