1. Transcendental Dialectic The project of the whole transcendental dialectic is well–known. Kant's primary aim here is that of warning us against the danger involved in the misunderstanding and subsequent hypostatization of the concepts of reason.4 However, this section of the Critique of Pure Reason does not play a purely negative role; instead, it furthers a positive enquiry of what Reason is and what his contents are. Furthermore, it also provides an explanation of the epistemic role played by these elements, the ideas of pure reason or transcendental ideas5, defined as being those concepts which contain the 'unconditioned'.6 In other words, these concepts are related to the transcendental premises of any possible experience, that is, to infinite and unconditioned 'transcendent objects' unattainable through...show more content... On the one hand, ideas must be purely a priori since they can never become part of any synthesis; hence, they are not obtained by being perceived in experience, nor for that matter are shaped by it through a causal relationship.14 Nonetheless, on the other hand we find that, as Kant explains in the introduction to the Critique, a priori knowledge arises in the occasion of experience;15 more precisely, ideas are 'awakened' by inference in the occasion of experience.16 I am aware that at first this might be seen as an argument against my line of reasoning: in fact, if an inference is conceived as being a process of elaboration, we might then think of ideas and their conjunction to natural objects as a result that 'comes after' experience. However, by what I have discussed above, if to obtain conditioned experience transcendental unconditioned conditions are required, then all these must be wholly present in the first instantiation of experience itself.17 Hence, by inferring we are simply articulating the shape of something already ...Get more content on HelpWriting.Net...