Algunas observaciones acerca del significado lógico de las categorías puras

the aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of logical meaning of pure categories as used by kant in his critique of pure reason. in some passages, kant states that pure categories, that is, categories considered independently of transcendental schemata, keep an entirely logical meaning. in some other passages, kant indicates that the categories so considered lack any kind of meaning. in the first place, we show that, despite this hesitation in the kantian text, the doctrine of the logical meaning of pure categories is an integral part of critical philosophy. in the second place, we examine what is the logical meaning of pure categories. we argue that categories can refer to spatio-temporal intuitions of our sensibility only thanks to transcendental schemata. we hold that, since in pure categories abstraction is made of this reference to determinate intuitions, the logical meaning of these categories is entirely undetermined. the logical meaning of a pure category is the thought of the determining reference of what is thought in that category to indeterminate intuitions in general.