A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

by Norman Kemp Smith

[1685] On Kant’s use of the terms ‘discipline’ and ‘canon,’ cf. above, pp. 71-2, 170, 174, 438.

[1686] Cf. above, p. 438.

[1687] A 4-5 = B 8-9.

[1688] Untersuchung: Zweite Betrachtung, W. ii. p. 283.

[1689] Kant here disavows the position of the Untersuchung in which (Erste Betrachtung, § 4) he had asserted that mathematics deals with quantity and philosophy with qualities.

[1690] For comment upon this distinction, cf. above, pp. 131-3, 338-9.

[1691] Untersuchung: Erste Betrachtung, § 2.

[1692] A 728 = B 756.

[1693] Untersuchung: Zweite Betrachtung, W. ii. p. 283.

[1694] Untersuchung: Erste Betrachtung, § 1, W. ii. p. 276: “Mathematics proceeds to all its definitions by a synthetic procedure, philosophy by an analytic procedure.”