The first step in creating this project was use the markov chain algorithm to generate 100,000 word text based on the entire texts of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason (translations by J. M. D. Meiklejohn and Thomas Kingsmill Abbott, respectively), linking by groups of four words. Before applying the algorithm, the texts were scrubbed to remove such things as titles, section numbers and headings. Finally, the markov output was parsed into individual "sentences", a sentence being defined as simply whatever words fell between two periods. Each of the aphorisms is one of these "sentences".

on to the aphorisms themselves . . .