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Salomon Maimon: Essay on transcendental philosophy. Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall, Alistair Welchman and Merten Reglitz (trans)

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  1. Maimon (2001), originally published under the title Salomon Maimons Lebensgeschichte in 1792.

  2. Fichte, ‘Letter to Reinhold, March or April 1795' (1970, p. 282).

  3. Atlas (1964, pp. 12–3).

  4. Maimon (1970, p. 155).

  5. Kant, in Maimon (2010, p. 231).

  6. Kant, in Maimon (2010, p. 236).

  7. Atlas (1964, p. 19).

  8. Nick Midgley, in Maimon (2010, p. xliv).

  9. Deleuze discusses the notion of ‘internal difference’ at first in relation to Bergson, see Deleuze (2003a, pp. 42–3).

  10. The list of scholars who argue for the ontological status of differentials as fictions or ideas is long: Schrader (1983, p. 704); Baumanns (1974, p. 55); Cassirer (1920, p. 102, 104, 123); Vaihinger (1911, pp. 110–2, 269, 273–4, 282); Atlas (1964, p. 118). Others argue that differentials have to be defined as real relations or laws of the understanding: Bergman (1967, p. 60, 67); Engstler (1990, p. 23, 143).

  11. Deleuze (1994, p. 193).

  12. Maimon (2010, p. 75, 80). References to passages from the Essay are to the page numbers of the German original edition, marked at the top of each page of the translation.

  13. Maimon (2010, p. 103).

  14. Maimon (2010, p. 33).

  15. Nick Midgley, in Maimon (2010, p. xlvi).

  16. See for instance, Deleuze (1983), p. 52n); (1994, p. 170, 173–4, 192–3, 310, 324, 326); (1993, p. 89); (2003b, p. 61); Seminar on Kant of 14 March 1978 (transcripts of Deleuze’s seminars are available on-line at http://www.webdeleuze.com/sommaire.html).

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Voss, D. Salomon Maimon: Essay on transcendental philosophy. Nick Midgley, Henry Somers-Hall, Alistair Welchman and Merten Reglitz (trans). Cont Philos Rev 44, 247–252 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-011-9179-4

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