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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Immanuel Kant · 1783 · translated by Paul Carus

The Critique of Pure Reason rewritten to be read: sixty numbered sections asking how mathematics, natural science, and metaphysics itself are possible — and answering the Hume who woke Kant from his "dogmatic slumber".

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Contents

Preface

  1. Preface 1,760 words
  2. Preface 1,579 words

Preamble on the Peculiarities of All Metaphysical Cognition

  1. Preamble on the Peculiarities of All Metaphysical Cognition–§2 1,549 words
  2. §3–§4 1,812 words
  3. §4–§5 1,888 words

First Part — How Is Pure Mathematics Possible?

  1. First Part — How Is Pure Mathematics Possible?–§12 1,791 words
  2. §13 1,517 words
  3. §13 1,782 words

Second Part — How Is the Science of Nature Possible?

  1. Second Part — How Is the Science of Nature Possible?–§18 1,723 words
  2. §19–§21 1,615 words
  3. §21a–§25 1,509 words
  4. §26–§29 1,758 words
  5. §30–§35 1,780 words
  6. §36–§38 1,711 words

Appendix to the Pure Science of Nature

  1. Appendix to the Pure Science of Nature–§39 1,675 words

Third Part — How Is Metaphysics in General Possible?

  1. Third Part — How Is Metaphysics in General Possible?–§44 1,906 words
  2. §45–§48 1,506 words
  3. §49–§52b 1,733 words
  4. §52c–§53 2,247 words
  5. §53–§57 2,853 words
  6. §57–§58 2,346 words
  7. §59–§60 1,736 words

Solution of the General Question — How Is Metaphysics Possible as a Science?

  1. Solution of the General Question — How Is Metaphysics Possible as a Science? 1,648 words
  2. Solution of the General Question — How Is Metaphysics Possible as a Science? 764 words

Appendix — On What Can Be Done to Make Metaphysics Actual as a Science

  1. Appendix — On What Can Be Done to Make Metaphysics Actual as a Science 1,513 words
  2. Appendix — On What Can Be Done to Make Metaphysics Actual as a Science 1,805 words
  3. Appendix — On What Can Be Done to Make Metaphysics Actual as a Science 1,392 words