Variations on the Possible: “What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?”

The topic of the “possible” is important in order to understand the meaning of Kant’s criticism. The text “What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?” (1786) adds—to the distinctions which are proposed in the Beweis of 1763 (those between intrinsic and extrinsic possibility, on the one hand, and between logical and real possibility, on the other hand)—the theme of subjective possibility, on behalf of an intrinsic necessity of reason, which aims to overcome the boundaries of the phenomenal level.