The gap in Kant'sCritique of Pure Reason

INTRODUCTION This chapter begins a second, independent line of internal criticism of Kant's transcendental idealism: one primary aim of Kant's Critical philosophy, to analyze and justify causal judgments, fails on its own terms. Kant claims that only transcendental idealism can justify empirical realism (A369–70). I argue to the contrary, that Kant's transcendental idealism cannot justify empirica…