I have stated in an earlier post that The Critique of Pure Reason is the worst book of modern philosophy ever written. I think that I do not do abuse to Kant if I say that the purpose of the book is to establish the criteria to reach truth.
At the end of the book and of his extensive lucubrations, Kant provides the answer in summary form (if, indeed, Kant could ever summarize anything):
"The holding of a thing to be true is a phenomenon in our understanding which may rest on objective grounds, but requires, also, subjective causes in the mind of the person judging. If a judgement is valid for every rational being, then its ground is objectively sufficient, and it is termed a conviction. If, on the other hand, it has its ground in the particular character of the subject, it is termed a persuasion.
Persuasion is a mere illusion, the ground of the judgement, which lies solely in the subject, being regarded as objective. Hence a judgement of this kind has only private validity - is only valid for the individual who judges, and the holding of a thing to be true in this way cannot be communicated. But truth depends upon agreement with the object, and consequently the judgement of all understandings, if true, must be in agreement with each other (consentientia uni tertio consentiunt inter se)".
(Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, in Great Books of the Western World, vol. 42, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1984, p. 240; bold mine)
In sum: the criterion of truth is the crowd.
At the end of the book and of his extensive lucubrations, Kant provides the answer in summary form (if, indeed, Kant could ever summarize anything):
"The holding of a thing to be true is a phenomenon in our understanding which may rest on objective grounds, but requires, also, subjective causes in the mind of the person judging. If a judgement is valid for every rational being, then its ground is objectively sufficient, and it is termed a conviction. If, on the other hand, it has its ground in the particular character of the subject, it is termed a persuasion.
Persuasion is a mere illusion, the ground of the judgement, which lies solely in the subject, being regarded as objective. Hence a judgement of this kind has only private validity - is only valid for the individual who judges, and the holding of a thing to be true in this way cannot be communicated. But truth depends upon agreement with the object, and consequently the judgement of all understandings, if true, must be in agreement with each other (consentientia uni tertio consentiunt inter se)".
(Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, in Great Books of the Western World, vol. 42, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1984, p. 240; bold mine)
In sum: the criterion of truth is the crowd.
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