Introduction—the Plan for this Book and the Lay of the Land

The plan for the book is sketched, and a classification scheme for extant interpretations of Kant’s transcendental distinction between appearances and things in themselves is provided. The interpretation of Kant’s critical idealism that will be developed in the book, which is a version of the so-called classic two-world view, is presented in outline, and a brief overview of the history of the classic two-world view is given.

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