THE TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION
OF THE PURE CONCEPTS OF UNDERSTANDING

by Immanuel Kant
Translation by Roderick T. Long
Music and vocals by Paul L. Fine



(The Kant Song)

Let us first divide cognition into rational analysis
and sensory perception (which Descartes considered valueless).
Now reason gives us concepts which are true but tautological;
sensation gives us images whose content is phenomenal.

Whatever greets our senses must exist in space and time
for else it would be nowhere and nowhen and therefore slime;
the space and time we presuppose before we sense reality
must have innate subjective transcendental ideality.

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(2009)