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[L:civ] Hartman argues that there is a strong parallelism between the construction of space and time in the Aesthetic and the construction of nature in the Analytic. In the Analytic, this construction begins with the Metaphysical Deduction and the transition from General to Transcendental logic. Each of the various tables represent different stages in the construction of the object. "The table of judgments...is the first step in the construction of the system which constitutes objects," the first step in Kant's construction of the object. The table of categories represents the second step, the table of schematized categories the third step, the table of principles the fourth step. Hartman summarizes, "the four tables...are all parts of one whole, a schematic construction that stands between the analysis of thought and its synthesis in the system which is the Critique. It deals with the construction of Nature our of the material of thought. The Aesthetic adds to this the necessary prerequisite, in the parallel construction of Space and Time out of the material of intuition." Cf. Axioms of Inutition, Analogies of Experience, Anticipations of Perception, Postulates of Empirical Thought.