Abstract

The distinction between concept and intuition is of the utmost importance for understanding Kant's critical philosophy. For, as Kant himself claimed, all the distinctive claims of this philosophy rest on, and develop out of, a detailed account of the way all our' cognition of things requires both intuitions and concepts.2 Unfortunately, interpreting Kant's distinction between concepts and intuitions remains a vexed matter. The locus classicus for these controversies is the Critique of Pure Reason's famous taxonomy of representations (called the Stufenleiter, or step-ladder):

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