Abstract: In this paper we try to give a semantic interpretation of the
Transcendental Analytic in the Critique of Pure Reason. For this purpose, we
turn our attention to the reason why Kant entitles it a logic of truth. We claim
as follows. First, the Transcendental Analytic, unlike the general logic, is
entitled a logic of truth in the sense that it provides a necessary condition for
every cognition to be true in terms of its content or matter. Secondly, such a
necessary condition is none other than the pure intuitions of sensibility and the
pure concepts of understanding, both of which are the conditions of the
possibility of the objects of experience as well as the conditions of the
possibility of experience. Thirdly, by means of our semantic interpretation, these
two conditions can be understood as the conditions of the possibility of
‘meaning(Sinn or Bedeutung),’ i.e., ‘relation to the object,’ which a cognition
should have in order to be true. Finally, of these two conditions, sensible
condition is the condition under which alone a concept can have a determinate
meaning so as to be theoretically used, while intellectual condition is the
condition under which alone a concept can have an indeterminate meaning so
as to be used in some way or other, whether theoretically or practically or
regulatively.