Abstract
Since its appearance, and up to the present, Kant's table of categories has met, by and large, with a take-it or leave-it attitude. A recent defense of Kant in this journal' trying to exonerate him from the charge that he adhered to something like degrees of being or existence argued very much in the spirit of Kant's general position but regrettably weakened its case by perpetuating a most awkward terminological ambiguity, with a proposed solution that can hardly serve Kant's cause. is the meaning of his distinction between reality and existence? Kant's first category of Quality is Realitdt, reality; his second category of Modality is Dasein-Nichtsein, existence/non-existence.2 The latter has a propositional spin-off in the second cardinal proposition of the Postulates of Empirical Thought Generatim.4 This postulate runs: What is
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