ROBSON CARVALHO DOS SANTOS

How can we understand the concepts of exposition and deduction in the Transcendental Aesthetics and the Analytic of Concepts in the Critique of Pure Reason? Although Kant reserves separate moments for the application of these procedures, in the second chapter of the Analytic the philosopher mentions a deduction of the concept of space and does not explain how it should be interpreted (B120). Does the use of the term deduction consist of a reclassification of what was done in the Aesthetics or is it, in fact, a matter of rehabilitating the concept of space in the context of the Analytics and applying a new argumentative procedure to this concept that is different from what was done in the Aesthetics? In this sense, considering that the Discipline of Pure Reason offers a characterization of some of the argumentative procedures applied in the Doctrine of Elements (DE), this project aims to investigate the meanings and uses that Kant gives to these argumentative expedients used in the DE. Thus, as a working hypothesis, it is necessary to ask: is it possible to rigorously understand and distinguish what happens in expositions and deductions in the light of the Discipline?