Resumo
O artigo examina a noção de extensão conceitual em Kant, a fim de determinar uma visão de predicação que possa integrar, de forma coerente, compromissos teóricos básicos da lógica geral como ele a concebia e os fundamentos de sua lógica transcendental. Após um breve panorama das diversas caracterizações da noção no corpus kantiano, distingo três modelos interpretativos acerca da mesma na literatura. Tais modelos são criticados e suas perspectivas de integrar os compromissos de Kant de modo inteiramente satisfatório são rejeitadas. Finalmente, esboço um tratamento alternativo da concepção kantiana de extensão conceitual, o qual respeita os critérios de adequação que guiaram o exame dos modelos anteriores. Ele aponta, por sua vez, para uma reavaliação da noção kantiana de conteúdo conceitual.
Abstract:
The article examines Kant’s notion of conceptual extension in order to determine a conception of predication that could integrate, in a coherent fashion, basic theoretical commitments of general logic as he conceived it and the central tenets of his transcendental logic. After a brief overview of the several characterizations of thatnotion in the Kantian corpus, I distinguish three interpretative models concerning it in the literature. Such models are criticized and their prospects of integrating Kant’s commitments in a fully satisfactory way are rejected. Finally, I sketch an alternative account of Kant’s notion of conceptual extension, which respects the criteria of adequacy that guided the examination of the former models. It points, on its turn, to a revaluation of Kant’s notion of conceptual content.
Keywords: Kant. Conceptual extension. Predication. General logic. Transcendental logic.
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