This is one person's attempt to list the most important distinctions Kant makes in the Critique of Pure Reason, with the most important page numbers for each one. Over time I'll revise and polish it, adding some distinctions and page numbers, and dropping others. I've tried hard to focus on the primary and cut the secondary in order keep it short. I want it to be a helpful aid in review, not an encyclopedia.

Note that this list does not contain key terms unless they have a counterpart in an important distinction. So it is not a complete guide to Kant's important concepts.

The list is in the order of appearance in the text.

• understanding / reason, B.ix, B.170, B.285, B.313, B.355f, B.359, B.363, B.367, B.382f, B.559, B.575, B.601, B.671-72
• intuitions / concepts, B.xiv, B.33, B.39, B.40, B.41, B.74, B.92-93
• speculative / practical reason, B.xix.n, B.xx, B.xxv, B.xxvi, B.578, B.804-05, B.823-24, B.831-32
• appearances or phenomena / things in themselves or noumena, B.xx, B.xxviiiff, B.306
• positive / negative purpose of the Critique, B.xxivf
• knowledge beginning with experience / knowledge arising out of experience, B.1
• a priori / a posteriori judgments, B.1-2
• pure / empirical, B.3, B.74
• analytic / synthetic judgments, B.10f
• canon / organon, B.24-25, B.85, B.88, B.824
• sensibility / understanding, B.29, B.75
• form / matter of sensation, B.34
• pure / empirical intuition, B.34-35, B.60, B.64
• empirical reality / transcendental ideality, B.56ff, B.66f
• sensible / intellectual intuition, B.68
• appearance / illusion, B.69f, B.350
• aesthetic / logic, B.76, B.87
• receptivity / spontaneity, B.74, B.93
• general / transcendental logic, B.80, B.82, B.87, B.97, B.104
• transcendental / empirical, B.80-81
• transcendental analytic / transcendental dialectic, B.82f, B.84085, B.87f
• analytic / dialectical logic, B.85, B.88
• concepts / principles, B.90, B.171, B.175
• synthetic unity / analytic unity, B.104-05
• quid juris / quid facti questions about the categories, B.116
• actual experience / possible experience, B.126-27, B.195, B.245
• subjective / objective necessity, B.127, B.353
• pure / empirical apperception, B.132
• analytic / synthetic unity of apperception, B.133
• empirical / pure consciousness, B.144
• thinking / knowing, B.146, B.165
• sensation / perception, B.147, B.160
• productive / reproductive imagination, B.152
• concepts / judgments / inferences, B.169, B.172
• analytic of concepts / analytic of principles, B.175
• schema / image, B.179, B.180, B.181, B.182
• transcendental truth / empirical truth, B.185
• empirical / pure principles, B.198
• constitutive / regulative principles, B.221-22, B.536-37, B.672, B.675
• empirical / transcendental use of the categories, B.266
• material / problematic / dogmatic idealism, B.274
• positive / negative sense of noumena, B.307
• transcendental / empirical / logical illusion, B.351-53
• immanent / transcendent, B.352, B.365, B.671
• transcendental / transcendent, B.352-53, B.593
• logical / transcendental dialectic, B.354, B.390
• logical / transcendental employment of reason, B.355-56, B.678
• logical / transcendental employment of understanding, B.394
• concepts of reason / concepts of understanding, B.367f, B.595
• ascending / descending the series of conditions, B.388, B.394
• progressive / regressive synthesis, B.438
• unconditioned qua first member of finite series / qua totality of infinite series, B.445
• antithetic / transcendental antithetic, B.448
• skepticism / skeptical method, B.451-52, B.507, B.514, B.535
• moral / transcendental philosophy, B.452-53, B.829
• transcendental / empirical freedom, B.476
• speculative / practical interests, B.494-95, B.498, B.769, B.770, B.832, B.858.n
• skepticism / dogmatism / criticism, B.512, B.788-89
• transcendental / empirical idealism, B.519
• infinite / indefinite regress, B.538-39
• empirical / intelligible character, B.567
• transcendental / practical freedom, B.561-62, B.829-31
• positive / negative freedom, B.581-82
• idea / ideal, B.596
• prudence / morality, B.828
• happiness / worthiness to be happy, B.834

This file is an electronic hand-out for the course, Kant.

Peter Suber, Department of Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
peters@earlham.edu. Copyright © 1999, 2000, Peter Suber.