Presentation notes: Vinci: Maja Jaakson - Myweb.dal.ca

P r e s e n t a t i o n n o t e s – V i n c i C h a p t e r 6 - P a g e | 8
• Vinci establishes he will argue that Part I concerns intuitions subject to the categories
proper, while Part II concerns intuitions subject to schematized categories
iii. third distinction
• Internal vs. external involvement of an intuition in synthetic activity
• Vinci argues the intuitions discussed in Part II are “unified by internal applications of
judgment”
• Important for nomic prescriptivism
• Key: Part I and Part II intuitions need different arguments in support of their being unified
• Sense-impressions are directly relevant to establishing why Part II needs an argument that
differs from the one presented in Part I: they render the first premise of Vinci’s
reconstructed argument false. Deficiency of the Sellarsian story.
• Vinci maintains the perception of perceptually present objects occurs by way of unified
empirical intuitions, not occur by way of sense impressions
• Vinci’s reading provides a better understanding of Kant’s claim that the §20 conclusion is
made in relation to only a partly characterized notion of empirical intuition; also accounts
for Kant’s claim that Part I is only a beginning.
2.5: The argument of Section 26
• Four themes: 1) nomic prescriptivism; 2a) synthesis of apprehension, 2b) synthesis’
conformity to the unity of space and time; 3) unity present in intuitions in general
transferred to empirical intuitions; 4) all synthesis stands under the categories.
• Two arguments require reconstruction: one supporting the claim that “intuitions of
perceptually present objects are intellectually unified”; another for the claim that “the
unities of space and time are now part of intellectual conditions”
• The A-deduction provides a guide.
• Four causality options: Vinci prefers option D, although it too has its shortcomings.
- Option D: intuitions of objects not perceptually present to us are subject to the
(all) unschematized categories; intuitions of perceptually present objects are
subject to the schematized categories of causality and community – to the
synthetic unities of space and time.
2.6: A subjective deduction showing that empirical intuitions are logically unified intuitions
iv. Argument A
v. Commentary
vi. Regarding the question of “right”
2.7: An objective deduction showing that the unities of space and time are part of the
intellectual conditions of objective thinking