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This book is an attempt to think out the nature and tenability ofKant's Transcendental Idealism, an attempt animated by the convictionthat even the elucidation of Kant's meaning, apart from any criticism,is impossible without a discussion on their own merits of the mainissues which he raises.
My obligations are many and great: to Caird's Critical Philosophy ofKant and to the translations of Meiklejohn, Max Müller, and ProfessorMahaffy; to Mr. J. A. Smith, Fellow of Balliol College, and to Mr. H.W. B. Joseph, Fellow of New College, for what I have learned from themin discussion; to Mr. A. J. Jenkinson, Fellow of Brasenose College,for reading and commenting on the first half of the MS.; to Mr. H. H.Joachim, Fellow of Merton College, for making many importantsuggestions, especially with regard to matters of translation; to Mr.Joseph, for reading the whole of the proofs and for making manyvaluable corrections; and, above all, to my wife for constant andunfailing help throughout, and to Professor Cook Wilson, to have beenwhose pupil I count the greatest of philosophical good fortunes. Someyears ago it was my privilege to be a member of a class with whichProfessor Cook Wilson read a portion of Kant's Critique of PureReason, and subsequently I have had the advantage of discussing withhim several of the more important passages. I am especially [Pg iv]indebted to him in my discussion of the following topics: the distinctionbetween the Sensibility and the Understanding (pp. 27-31, 146-9,162-6), the term 'form of perception' (pp. 37, 40, 133 fin.-135), theMetaphysical Exposition of Space (pp. 41-8), Inner Sense (Ch. V, andpp. 138-9), the Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories (pp.149-53), Kant's account of 'the reference of representations to anobject' (pp. 178-86), an implication of perspective (p. 90), theimpossibility of a 'theory' of knowledge (p. 245), and the pointsconsidered, pp. 200 med.-202 med., 214 med.-215 med., and 218. Theviews expressed in the pages referred to originated from ProfessorCook Wilson, though it must not be assumed that he would accept th