... introduction of the Critique of Pure Reason. Kant opens the preface of the first edition by introducing a natural dilemma facing all humans: human reason asks itself questions it cannot answer. Aristotle defines human beings under the genus animal and the species rational. Later in the critique Kant adopts this definition as his own. This means that for Kant to be human ... secure path. Logic is an example of a field which follows the secure path. Logic, says Kant, has been following the secure path for a very long time. Since the time of Aristotle logicians have not had to retrace a si...

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