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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康德的原始时空仅仅是可能性的基础

在里面纯粹理性批判康德似乎对他认为是我们的东西的统一性提出了不相容的主张先验空间和时间的表示。我认为这些表现是独立于所有综合的统一的，并解释了这如何避免其他立场遇到的关于先验演绎及其与该作品中的先验美学关系的问题。中心是这样的主张，即这些表象（1）在被表征为直觉并被认为先于任何感性的影响时，仅包含可能的有限的空间和时间表象，以及（2）是仅作为先验基础的表象，这些表象是接收或产生有限表象的可能性的先验基础，这些表象是通过符合类别的综合来确定的（在接收的情况下立即确定）。