Rola wyobraźni w transcendentalnej dedukcji kategorii. Interpretacja fragmentu Krytyki czystego rozumu według wyd. A.

Abstract

The article presents some aspects of transcendental deduction of category and against this background it demonstrates the role of imagination. Imagination, which is mentioned by Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason as one of the three sources of cognition, occupies the central position. It is shown how imagination by means of transcendental scheme combines categories with sheer sensuous representations, and the double synthesis which occurs then is highlighted. Imagination is interpreted as a total undetermined action whose first description is transcendental apperception. The author emphasizes links of so interpreted imagination with the notion of will in Schopenhauer, some intuitions present in mystic thought and in contemporary physics. The article concludes with remarks on the relations between imagination and logic and limitations of the latter.