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see also analogies of experience , anticipations of perception , categories , judgement , principles , quantity , unity These axioms are a group of principles which serve as rules for the objective employment of the categories of quantity. Each group of categories has its corresponding principles which serve to determine how things must appear in time: those corresponding to the categories of quality are the ‘anticipations of perception’, those of relation the ‘analogies of experience’ and those of modality the ‘postulates of empirical thought’. Since our experience of the world cannot be directly categorical, we are unable to organize our quantitative experience in terms of the categories ‘unity’, ‘plurality’ and ‘totality’; we thus require principles to make them conform to the conditions of finite intuition. The ‘axioms’ and the ‘anticipations’ form the ‘mathematical principles’ in contrast to the ‘dynamic principles’ of the ‘analogies’ and the ‘postulates’. The mathematical principles translate the categories into principles adequate to the intuition of objects in space and time – those of extensive and intensive magnitude. The leading principle of the axioms, which is all Kant gives us in the CPR, is in the A edition (p. 162) ‘All appearances are, in their intuition, extensive magnitudes’ and in B (p. 202) ‘All intuitions are extensive magnitudes’. This means that it ... log in or subscribe to read full text