In this article, I will analyze the theory of causation of the ‘second
analogy’in Critique of Pure Reason(CPR), and in turn, expose it’s implication. I
will argue that the ‘second analogy’ clearly presupposes ‘transcendental
idealism’, and most problems concerning the interpretation of the second
analogy occurs if we ignore this aspect. I will, first, closely examine the
preparation part(A189/B234~A191/B236), where Kant provides the purposes of
the second analogy in terms of transcendental idealism. Then, I will reconstruct
the second analogy in two different arguments. The first argument is an
incomplete argument which only shows we should have to presuppose a rule
for an cognition of an event. The second argument accomplishes the first
argument by showing how Kant’s theory of faculties and transcendental idealism
is implicitly presupposed in the ‘second analogy’ In sum, the validity of the
second analogy depends on the validity of the transcendental idealism. Any
interpretation ignoring this conclusion falls in to a distortion, and results in
creating false problems on interpreting the ‘second analogy’