Note on References

           References are listed in the body of the text, except when included

with remarks of substance in footnotes. Each reference begins with a letter-

number abbreviation, denoting one of the works listed in the Bibliography.

This abbreviation is usually followed by a colon, after which is given the

relevant page number(s) in the text being cited. For Kant's works (except

Kt1), this number refers to the pagination in the Berlin Academy edition

(K2), and is followed in curved brackets by the pagination of the English

translation whenever that translation does not specify the German pagination

in its margins. The texts used for Kt26 and Kt35 are not included as such in

K2, so only the translator's pagination (in brackets) is given. For

translations of other writers, only the English pagination will be cited

(without curved brackets). Any deviations from these norms are specified in

the corresponding Bibliographical entry. When a reference is to the same

work as that of the immediately preceding reference within the same

paragraph, only the page numbers are cited.

           Kant's works are listed separately in Part One of the Bibliography.

To make them easily distinguishable from other 'K' entries, their numbers

are preceded by 'Kt'. (For a similar reason, references to my other writings

are numbered separately using 'Pq' and are listed immediately before the

other 'P' entries in Part Two of the Bibliography.) The logic behind the

order of the Kt numbering should become clear in II.4 (especially Figure

II.1) and III.4 (especially Figure III.9). The book which forms the logical

starting-point of Kant's System, his Critique of Pure Reason, is referred to

as 'Kt1'. The page numbers cited in references to Kt1 refer to the second

German edition ('B'), except when preceded by the traditional 'A' to denote

material which is unique to the first edition.

           In order to minimize the obtrusiveness of lengthy references and par-

enthetical comments in the text, the following abbreviations will be used:

         alt.          =             translation altered

           Ap.         =             Appendix

           cf.           =             compare (when a comparison is not being made

explicitly in the

                                       text, this usually indicates a reference to a different

opinion)

           Ch.          =            Chapter

           e.a.          =           emphasis added

         e.g.,        =           for example,

         f             =           and following (pages)

         i.e.,          =           that is, (normally used to restate the point in other

words)

         n           =           note

          q.a.          =           quoted above (i.e., earlier in the same section)

         q.i.          =           quoted in

           s.a.         =           see also (usually indicates another text citing the same

                                          opinion)

         s.e.       =           see especially

         t.b.       =           translator's brackets

          viz.,         =           namely, (used to specify the precise item(s) being

referred to)

Quotes are always reproduced exactly as they appear, with the following

two exceptions: (1) changes in translation are sometimes made, but only

when the rationale is explained in the text (as with the term 'perspective',

discussed in II.3), or when the abbreviation 'alt.' appears after the page

number; and (2) italics and capitalizations are occasionally omitted if their

original purpose is obscured by the brevity of the quote. When quoting

from works in foreign languages for which no translation is cited in the

Bibliography, translations are either my own, or else are taken from some

other secondary source (which is then specified in brackets after the page

number of the original reference).

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