Axioms of Intuition

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Axioms of Intuition is a key section in Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason that lays out the fundamental principles governing our pure sensible intuition of space and time.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf doctrine in transcendental philosophy
section of a philosophical work
aimsTo justify the synthetic a priori status of mathematical principles
appliesTo empirical intuition
phenomena in space
phenomena in time
author Immanuel Kant NERFINISHED
belongsTo theory of knowledge
transcendental philosophy
classifiedAs synthetic a priori principle
concerns mathematical cognition
principles of the understanding
pure sensible intuition
space
time
distinguishedFrom Analogies of Experience NERFINISHED
Anticipations of Perception NERFINISHED
Postulates of Empirical Thought in General NERFINISHED
epistemicRole grounds the possibility of mathematical cognition of appearances
epistemicStatus a priori
follows Schematism of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding NERFINISHED
hasKeyTerm Anschauung (intuition)
Ausdehnung (extension)
Erscheinung (appearance)
Größe (magnitude)
hasLanguage German
hasPhilosophicalTheme conditions of the possibility of geometry
role of intuition in mathematics
structure of space and time as forms of intuition
influenced Neo-Kantian epistemology
subsequent philosophy of mathematics
influencedBy Euclidean geometry NERFINISHED
early modern empiricism
early modern rationalism
introducesConcept extensive magnitude
keyClaim All appearances are, as regards their intuition, extensive magnitudes
locatedInWorkPart Analytic of Principles NERFINISHED
Transcendental Analytic NERFINISHED
originalTitle Axiome der Anschauung NERFINISHED
partOf Critique of Pure Reason NERFINISHED
precedes Anticipations of Perception NERFINISHED
relatesToConcept appearance
intuition
mathematical principles
synthesis of the manifold
revisedIn 1787 second edition of Critique of Pure Reason
workDate 1781

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Analytic of Principles contains Axioms of Intuition