Association and Objectivity. The threefold synthesis as Kant's answer to "Hume´s Problem"
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show in what sense the Kantian notion of theoretical objectivity constitutes an answer to what Kant calls “Hume's problem”. For this purpose, an analysis of the Transcendental Deduction is carried out, where Kant offers a foundation of this notion, with special emphasis on the first edition and, particularly, on the well-known doctrine of the triple synthesis. From this analysis it is shown, already in the conclusions, that the transcendental affinity, inseparable from the notion of theoretical objectivity, constitutes Kant's answer to the problem proposed by Hume.
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