The Doctrine of Self-positing and Receptivity in Kant's Late ...

synthetic potential for objective cognition.
As such, furthermore, it simultaneously assumes analytically the fulfillment of all
transcendental conditions under which the existence of the thinking and sensible subject
is brought forth as actual. Through its act of spontaneity, the subject becomes conscious
of its real existence and is capable of unfolding the formal and material modes of its
objective reality. Thus, with the a priori knowledge of the latter necessary modes, it is
capable of positing itself as an Object that is no longer conceived either as an empty
determining of thought (analytic self-position) nor as a mere manifold of intuition, but
instead as containing particular fields of its own potential determination in intuition. The
conditions, under which those fields of determinability are capable of being given
(dabile), reside in the subject‘s Act der Receptivität. In the Sebstsetzungslehre, the
possibility for the latter fields of time, space, sensible space, empeiria, and the
transcendental Object is grounded upon Kant‘s introduction of a sensing I. The subject
constructs a priori the conditions to enable itself to be open to encounter the datum,
exhibiting thus its finitude within the world. In the reciprocity of these Acts
(Spontaneität and Receptivität), the subject can be said to cognize itself – as
Object/object – and in this way eine Erfahrung machen [to make experience].
The previous section dedicated to the analytic level of the Selbstsetzungslehre
showed the way the Object ―I‖ can be both methodologically arrived at and conceived
within a logical notion of apperception. And while in that exposition a synthetic unity of
apperception was identified as a necessary condition for the possibility of an ―analytic
apperception,‖ at the logical level it remained reduced to its necessary function of unity
in the possibility for judgments and concept formations alone. According to the principle
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