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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Kants-transcendental-argument, different particulars can occupy different locations in space- time therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) space and time must exist, we can apply the concept of causality to structure our experience only if we have a priori knowledge of causality therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) we have a priori knowledge of causality, "to structure experience" is my inter- pretation of Kant's idea of a "synthesis of the mani- fold of sen- sible intuition" (CPR B 151; B 102-106) explains we can apply concept x to structure our experience, we say that the sun warms our body therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) we can apply the concept of causality to structure our experience, whenever we say that the sun warms our body, we are applying the concept of causality to structure our experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) we can apply the concept of causality to structure our experience, "TABLE OF CATEGORIES I Of Quantity: Unity Plurality Totality II Of Quality: Reality Negation Limitation III Of Relations: Of Inherence and Subsistence (substantia et accidens) Of Causality and Dependence (cause and effect) Of Community (reciprocity between agent and patient) IV Of Modality: Possibility -- Impossibility Existence -- Non-existence Necessity -- Contingency" (Kant, CPR B106) leads to "we are entitled to call these representations pure concepts of the understanding, and to regard them as applying a priori to objects" (Kant, CPR B 105), experience is possible only if causality exists therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) causality exists, we can apply the intuitions ("Anschauung") of space and time to structure our experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains the intuitions of space and time already before any experience, our mind contains concept x already before any experience equivalent concept x is an "original pure concept of syn- thesis that the mind contains within itself a priori." That is, concept x is what Kant calls a "category" (CPR B 105-6), we can apply the concept of Pi to structure our experience only if our mind contains the concept of Pi already before any experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains the concept of Pi already before any experience, we can apply the concept of the green spaghetti monster to structure our experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains the concept of the green spaghetti monster already before any experience, we can apply the intuitions ("Anschauung") of space and time to structure our ex- perience only if our mind contains the intuitions of space and time already before any experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains the intuitions of space and time already before any experience, "I entitle transcendental all knowledge which is occupied not so much with objects as with the mode of our knowledge of objects in so far as this mode of knowledge is to be possible a priori. A system of such concepts might be entitled transcendental philosophy." Kant, CPR B 25 specifies "Not every kind of knowledge a priori should be called transcendental, but that only by which we know that -- and how -- certain representations (intuitions or concepts) can be employed or are possible purely a priori. The term 'transcendental', that is to say, signifies such knowledge as concerns the a priori possibility of knowledge, or its a priori employment." Kant, CPR B 80, we can apply concept x to structure our experience only if our mind contains concept x already before any experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains concept x already before any experience, our knowledge of causality is a priori knowledge and it is transcendental knowledge because it guarantees the possibility of experience explains we have a priori knowledge of causality, we can apply the concept of the green spaghetti monster to structure our experience only if our mind contains the concept of the green spaghetti monster already before any experience therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) our mind contains the concept of the green spaghetti monster already before any experience, it is possible to prove that the sum of the triangle's inner angles is 180° therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) Euclidean space exists, Key and LAM conventions see click on the small icon under this text box, "Not every kind of knowledge a priori should be called transcendental, but that only by which we know that -- and how -- certain representations (intuitions or concepts) can be employed or are possible purely a priori. The term 'transcendental', that is to say, signifies such knowledge as concerns the a priori possibility of knowledge, or its a priori employment." Kant, CPR B 80 supports our knowledge of causality is a priori knowledge and it is transcendental knowledge because it guarantees the possibility of experience, it is possible to prove that the sum of the triangle's inner angles is larger than 180° therefore (ArgScheme: modus ponens) non-Euclidean geometries exist