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Before going into a detailed analysis of Kant’s distinction between Formal Logic and Transcendental Logic, let us recall the definitions of these two spheres given in the Critique of Pure Reason: (a) Formal or General Logic contains the strictly necessary rules of thinking, regardless of differences in its objects;1 (b) Transcendental Logic is concerned with the origins of our a priori knowledge of objects and is the science of the pure knowledge through which we think of objects.2 These two definitions present the difference between the two spheres in terms of their relationship to objects, insofar as we can abstract from objects or in turn are concerned precisely with the knowledge of objects.
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Kritik der reinen Vernunft (2nd German ed.), p. 78; in Norman Kemp-Smith’s translation (Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, London, 1950), pp. 94 f. We will henceforth adopt the following style in references to this work: K. d. r. V., B 78 (transl., pp. 94 f.).
Kant, Über eine Entdeckung, nach der alle neue Kritik der reinen Vernunft durch eine ältere entbehrlich gemacht werden soll, Vorländer ed., (in I. Kant, Kleinere Schriften, 2nd ed., Leipzig, 1913), 71.
O. Ewald, Kants kritischer Idealismus als Grundlage von Erkenntnistheorie und Ethik (Berlin, 1908), p. 22.
Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Über das Fundament des Philosophischen Wissens, nebst einigen Erläuterungen über die Theorie des Vorstellungsvermögens (Jena, 1791) p. 36.
Cf. Hugo Bergman, Ha-Philosophia shel Shelomo Maimon (in Hebrew; Jerusalem, 1932) and Friedrich Kuntze, Die Philosophie Salomon Maimons (Heidelberg, 1912 ).
Salomon Maimon, Versuch einer neuen Logik oder Theorie des Denkens… ( Berlin: Kant- Gesellschaft, 1912 ), p. X XII.
Maimon, Kritische Untersuchungen über den menschlichen Geist (Leipzig, 1797), pp. 178 ff.; Bergman, op. cit. p. 76.
G.W.F. Hegel, Logik, ed. Lasson (Leipzig, 1923), Part II, pp. 30 ff.
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Rotenstreich, N. (1972). The Two Logics and their Relation. In: Experience and its Systematization. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2811-0_1
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