[865] A x-xi. Cf. above, pp. 50-1.
[866] Cf. below, pp. 543 ff., 576-7.
[867] Whether it was the chief reason is decidedly open to question. The un-Critical character of its teaching as regards the function of empirical concepts and of the transcendental object, and the unsatisfactoriness of its doctrine of a threefold synthesis, would of themselves account for the omission. The passage in the chapter on phenomena and noumena (A 250 ff.) in which the doctrine of the transcendental object is again developed was likewise omitted in the second edition.
[868] Cf. below, pp. 238, 263 ff.
[869] Cf. also in Methodology, below, p. 543 ff.
[870] Cf. above, pp. xxxvi, xxxvii-viii, 36; below, pp. 241-3.
[871] Cf. below, p. 543 ff.
[872] A xi.
[873] A 100-1.
[874] Kant’s failure either to distinguish or to connect the two deductions in any really clear and consistent manner is a defect which is accentuated rather than diminished in the second edition. Though the sections devoted to the subjective enquiry are omitted, and the argument of the objective deduction is so recast as to increase the emphasis laid upon its more strictly logical aspects, the teaching of the subjective deduction is retained and influences the argument at every point. For the new deduction, no less than that of the first edition, rests throughout upon the initial assumption that though connection or synthesis can never be given, it is yet the generative source of all consciousness of order and relation.