Kant’s Original Space and Time as Mere Grounds for Possibilities
Kant’s Original Space and Time as Mere Grounds for Possibilities
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康德最初的空间和时间只是可能性的基础
DOI:
10.1017/s1369415421000182
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发表时间:
2021
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0.5
通讯作者:
Thomas Raysmith
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作者:
Thomas Raysmith
Abstract 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.