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2nd reading, so far my notes taking has been quite different from the first reading, I am far too influenced by Fichte.
This will require another reading soon.

Compared to the sections till Transcendental analytics, Kant has been lot verbose in Transcendental dialectic. To make it fun, i try to anticipate what Kant is going to come up with in the next page or the section, or from the headings. There are still surprises (good ones, pointing out what i missed. And then sharp ones pointing out my impatience of rushing to conclusions!).

I quite like Kant's terse writing style, tongue twisting sentences like these -

"I, as an intelligence and thinking subject, cognise myself as an object thought, so far as I am, moreover, given to myself in intuition- only, like other phenomena, not as I am in myself, and as considered by the understanding, but merely as I appear"

are straight-forward, as you are fitting the sentence to model in your head. :)

This is what the translator added in the introduction -
"It is hardly profitable, therefore, to meander through the maze of it's doctrine without the support of tutoring and secondary reading."

Such discouragements! However, So far it's like reading any other terse philosophical treatise. If you have your bases covered - Hume, Locke, Leibniz, Descartes, Aristotle and ancient metaphysicsians about matter and form.