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Philosophy of Kant

1.) As we have seen, the “Transcendental Aesthetic,” Kant distinguishes between the pure forms of intuition, space and time, and the empirical intuition of things or objects given in space and time, e.g., chairs and tables? How does he make a similar, or parallel distinction, in the “Transcendental Analytic,” as he attempts to “deduce” or derive the origin of the pure concepts or categories of the understanding?

2.)What is Kant’s strategy for transcendentally “deducing” the categories or establishing their objective validity, and how does such a deduction outline ways for “synthesizing” a possible object of knowledge?
Use the book Critique of Pure Reason
pages 129-175 for question 1
pages 180-187 for question 2