In this article, I argue that in the sense of greatest epistemological concern for Kant, empirical cognition is ‘rational sensory discrimination’: the identification or differentiation of sensory objects from each other (whether correctly or not), occurring through a capacity of forming judgements (whether correct or not). With this account of empirical cognition, I show how the Transcendental Deduction of the first Critique is most plausibly read as having as its fundamental assumption the thesis that we have empirical cognition, and I provide evidence that Kant understood Hume as granting this assumption.

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先验演绎中的经验认知：康德的出发点与休谟问题

在这篇文章中，我认为，在康德最关心的认识论意义上，经验认知是“理性的感官辨别”：通过形成判断的能力来识别或区分感觉对象（无论是否正确）。 （无论正确与否）。通过对经验认知的这种解释，我展示了第一个的先验演绎如何批判最有可能被解读为将我们具有经验认知这一论点作为其基本假设，我提供的证据表明康德将休谟理解为认可这一假设。