KANT, Immanuel.

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Die falsche Spitzfindigkeit der vier syllogistischen Figuren erweisen. First edition of Kant's only work in the field of formal logic, a critique of traditional scholastic syllogisms. This short essay from his pre-Critical period is scarce in commerce..Kant's philosophical work in the 1760s increasingly criticised the very possibility of traditional metaphysics. The falsche Spitzfindigkeit introduces this scepticism and focuses on the structure of Aristotelian logic. By challenging the traditional organisation of knowledge, Kant "prepared the ground for the later 'metaphysical deduction' of the categories in the first Critique" (Beiser, p. 38).OCLC records three copies only in North American institutions.

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