Kant's Original Space and Time as Mere Grounds for Possibilities

被引:2
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作者
Raysmith, Thomas [1 ]
机构
[1] Humboldt Univ, Berlin, Germany
关键词
space and time; Transcendental Aesthetic; Transcendental Deduction; form of intuition; formal intuition; pure intuition; B160-1; metaphysical space; synthesis; TRANSCENDENTAL DEDUCTION; INTUITION; UNITY;
D O I
10.1017/S1369415421000182
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
In the Critique of Pure Reason Kant appears to make incompatible claims regarding the unitary natures of what he takes to be our a priori representations of space and time. I argue that these representations are unitary independently of all synthesis and explain how this avoids problems encountered by other positions regarding the Transcendental Deduction and its relation to the Transcendental Aesthetic in that work. Central is the claim that these representations (1) contain, when characterized as intuitions and considered as prior to any affections of sensibility, only an infinitude of merely possible finite spatial and temporal representations, and (2) are representations that are merely transcendental grounds for the possibilities for receiving or generating finite representations in sensibility that are determined (immediately, in the case of reception) by means of syntheses that accord with the categories.
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页码:23 / 42
页数:20
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