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Kant’s Transcendental Deduction and the Unity of Space and Time

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Andrew F. Roche
Andrew F. Roche*
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Abstract

On one reading of Kant’s account of our original representations of space and time, they are, in part, products of the understanding or imagination. On another, they are brute, sensible givens, entirely independent of the understanding. In this article, while I agree with the latter interpretation, I argue for a version of it that does more justice to the insights of the former than others currently available. I claim that Kant’s Transcendental Deduction turns on the representations of space and time as determinate, enduring particulars, whose unity is both given and a product of synthesis.

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Kantspacetimecategoriesform of intuitionformal intuition

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Kantian Review , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 41 - 64
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