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Critique of Pure Reason

Baco de Verulamio,Instauratio Magna-Præfatio.

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. — (1781.)

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. — (1787.)

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TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS.

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TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC.

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TRANSCENDENTAL LOGIC.SECOND work.

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BOOK I.OF THE CONCEPTIONS OF PURE REASON.

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BOOK II.OF THE DIALECTICAL PROCEDURE OF PURE REASON.

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CHAP. I. — Of the Paralogisms of Pure Reason.

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CHAP. II. — The Antinomy of Pure Reason.

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SECTION FIRST.System of Cosmological Ideas.

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SECTION SECOND.Antithetic of Pure Reason.

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FIRST CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS.

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE FIRST ANTINOMY.

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SECOND CONFLICT OF TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS.

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Thesis.

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE SECOND ANTINOMY.

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THIRD CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS.

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE THIRD ANTINOMY.

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FOURTH CONFLICT OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL IDEAS.

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OBSERVATIONS ON THE FOURTH ANTINOMY.

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SECTION THIRD.Of the Interest of Reason in these Self—contradictions.

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SECTION FOURTH.Of the necessity imposed upon Pure Reason of presenting a Solution of its Transcendental Problems.

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SECTION FIFTH.Sceptical Exposition of the Cosmological Problems presented in the four Transcendental Ideas.

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SECTION SIXTH.Transcendental Idealism as the Key to the Solution of Pure Cosmological Dialectic.

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SECTION SEVENTH.Critical Solution of the Cosmological Problem.

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SECTION EIGHTH.Regulative Principle of Pure Reason in relation to the Cosmological Ideas.

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SECTION NINTH.Of the Empirical Use of the Regulative Principle of Reason with regard to the Cosmological Ideas.

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CHAPTER III.The Ideal of Pure Reason.

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II.TRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF METHOD.

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Thesis.

Every composite substance in the world consists of simple parts; and there exists nothing that is not either itself simple, or composed of simple parts.