Abstract

The notion of axiom occurs in different places in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. The prevailing exegetical approach states that, mainly, in the Transcendental Analytic through Schematism and the System of Principles we are dealing with the „mathematization of experience” in the process of the transition from the categorial level to the phenomenal one. The refined account that we uphold here argues that, in this process, we are dealing rather with a re-examination of the axioms of mathematics (geometry) within the transcendental training. With respect to axioms, Kant’s viewpoint is highly dependent on his transcendental philosophy on which is also grounded his view on the nature of mathematics.