Alignments with the Categories
Peter Suber, Philosophy Department, Earlham College

This is my reading of what aligns with the categories. I've always wanted to put this information into a table, but it is too wide and tall for 8.5" x 11" paper. The web is the perfect medium for it, since you can scroll side to side and up and down to see all its parts. Scrolling is inconvenient, but at least it allows the information to be put in this natural format. (You can minimize scrolling by temporarily setting your default browser font size to something very small.) I like to think that Kant sketched a similar table on a large piece of parchment.

Heading or type, B.106 Quantity Quality Relation Modality Heading or type, B.106
Category, B.106 Unity Plurality Totality Reality Negation Limitation Inherence and subsistence Causality and dependence Community Possibility Existence Necessity Category, B.106
Category type, B.110 Mathematical Mathematical Dynamical Dynamical Category type, B.110
Judgment, B.95 Universal Particular Singular Affirmative Negative Infinite Categorical Hypothetical Disjunctive Problematic Assertoric Apodeictic Judgment, B.95
Schema, B.182-83 Number Number Number Being in time Not being in time Being occupying time by degrees down to zero Permanence in time Succession in time Coexistence in time Existence at a time Existence at a determinate time Existence at all times Schema, B.182-83
Time aspect, B.184 Time-series, generation of time Time-content, filling of time Time-order, connecting representations with one another under a rule Scope of time, time itself as correlate of determination of whether and how objects belong to time Time aspect, B.184
Principles, B.200 Axioms of intuition, B.202ff Anticipations of perception, B.207ff Analogies of experience, B.218ff Postulates of empirical thought, B.165ff Principles, B.200
Principle type, B.201 Mathematical Mathematical Dynamical Dynamical Principle type, B.201
Certainty of principle, B.201, B.223 Intuitive Intuitive Discursive Discursive Certainty of principle, B.201, B.223
Principle type, B.221-22 Constitutive Constitutive Regulative Regulative Principle type, B.221-22
Mode of time, B.219, B.262 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Duration Succession Simultaneity N/A N/A N/A Mode of time, B.219, B.262
Analogy of experience N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Permanence of substance, B.224. In all change of appearance, substance is permanent; its quantum in nature is neither increased nor diminished, B.224. Succession in time in accordance with the law of causality, B.232. All alterations take place in conformity with the law of the connection of cause and effect, B.232. Coexistence in accordance with the law of reciprocity or community, B.256. All substances, in so far as they can be perceived to coexist in space, are in thoroughgoing reciprocity, B.256. N/A N/A N/A Analogy of experience
A priori law of nature, B.280 In mundo non datur hiatus (forbidding spatial gaps), B.281 In mundo non datur saltus (forbidding temporal leaps), B.281 In mundo non datur casus (forbidding blind chance), B.280 In mundo non datur fatum (forbidding blind necessity), B.280 A priori law of nature, B.280
Form of nothing, B.348 Empty concept without object, ens rationis Empty object of a concept, nihil privativum Empty intuition without object, ens imaginarium Empty object without concept, nihil negativum Form of nothing, B.348
Postulate of empirical thought, B.265-66 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A That which agrees with the formal conditions of experience (with intuition and concepts) is possible That which is bound up with the material conditions of experience (with sensation) is actual That which in its connection with the actual is determined in accordance with universal conditions of experience is necessary Postulate of empirical thought, B.265-66
Syllogism, B.361 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Categorical Hypothetical Disjunctive N/A N/A N/A Syllogism, B.361
Transcendental idea N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A The unconditioned of the categorical synthesis in a subject, B.379; or the unconditioned unity of the thinking subject, B.391; or soul, B.391 The unconditioned of the hypothetical synthesis of the members of a series, B.379; or the unconditioned unity of the series of conditions of appearance, B.391; or world, B.391 The unconditioned of the disjunctive synthesis of the parts in a system, B.379; or the unconditioned unity of the conditin of all objects of thought in general, B.391; or God, B.391 N/A N/A N/A Transcendental idea
Idea of a science corresponding to this transcendental idea, B.391-92 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Transcendental doctrine of the soul, psychologia rationalis Transcendental science of the world, cosmologia rationalis Transcendental knowledge of God, theologia transzendentalis N/A N/A N/A Idea of a science corresponding to this transcendental idea, B.391-92
Dialectical inference, B.398 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Paralogisms, B.399ff Antinomies, B.432ff Ideal of pure reason, B.595ff N/A N/A N/A Dialectical inference, B.398
Part of rational doctrine of the soul, B.402 Soul is substance; this yields concept of immateriality, B.403 Soul is simple; this yields concept of incorruptibility, B.403 Soul is identical over time, or is unity; this yields concept of personality, B.403 Soul is in relation to possible objects in space; this yields the concept of animality, B.403 Part of rational doctrine of the soul, B.402
Paralogism Substantiality, A.348, B.407 Simplicity, A.351, B.407 Personlity, A.362, B.408 Ideality, A.366, B.409 Paralogism
Cosmological idea, B.443 Absolute completeness of composition of the given whole of appearances Absolute completeness in the division of a given whole in appearances Absolute completeness in the origination of appearances Absolute completeness as regards dependence of existence of the alterable in appearance Cosmological idea, B.443
Antinomy, B.438 First, whether the world has a beginning in time or boundary in space, B.454ff Second, whether all composites are made of simples, B.462ff Third, whether there is transcendental freedom, B.472ff Fourth, whether the world presupposes an absolutely necessary being, B.480ff Antinomy, B.438
Antinomy type, B.446 Mathematical Mathematical Dynamical Dynamical Antinomy type, B.446
Skeptical representation of this antinomy B.514 B.515 B.516 B.516 Skeptical representation of this antinomy
Solution to this antinomy B.545 B.551 B.560 B.587 Solution to this antinomy
Kind of knowledge of objects available from reason through concepts, B.752 Whether the object is a quantum Whether to ascribe to the object positive being or its absence Whether the object is a primary substratum or mere determination of substance Whether the existence of the object is related to another existence as cause or effect Whether the existence of the object is isolated or stands in reciprocal relation do and dependence upon others Whether the object is possible, actual, or necessary Kind of knowledge of objects available from reason through concepts, B.752
Category, B.106 Unity Plurality Totality Reality Negation Limitation Inherence and subsistence Causality and dependence Community Possibility Existence Necessity Category, B.106
Heading or type, B.106 Quantity Quality Relation Modality Heading or type, B.106

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