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thus fields capable of determination by thought, or its agent of synthesis, the imagination. From the perspective of this particular function, the concept brings out the fact that a ―determination‖ of any kind, however, is external to the source of the data of thought. Unlike god, space and time are not self-determining. In this way, the KrV opened up a new theoretical space where the concept of Setzen became operative; it indicated a function of the mind that affected itself. Nonetheless, its use in this context was still ambiguous. As a concept it was neither thematized nor recurrent enough in the KrV, making it hard to establish whether or not its use outside the discussion of absolute position was significant at all. Ultimately, what was clear is that what was meant by ―absolute‖ was now in the KrV empirical only. Looking back from the perspective of the analysis of the Selbstsetzungslehre, however, one is able to identify a recurrent set of conceptual relations and functions. First and foremost, the necessity of the possibility that data be capable of being given to thinking in order to establish inner or real possibility appears in all three periods. The turn to a transcendental idealism in the KrV positions space and time as the formal conditions under which sensibility is capable of providing the intellectual ―I‖ content that can be synthesized in thought. This is the reason why what is revolutionary in Kant‘s thought – his kind of idealism – rests on precisely the introduction of the concept of a ―pure form of intuition.‖ While the establishment of the necessary synthetic possibility for cognition is the aim of his critical thought, the critical character of his thought lies in the move from the function of god to that of space and time. The question of the origin of the given, of course, was no longer of metaphysical interest, since the answer could only be speculative. 170
As seen in chapter four, the relationship between space and time and the subject‘s capability of receptivity is at the heart of what is new in the doctrine of self-positing. A basic duality between thought and intuition remains, but the complexity of their relationship is underscored. This occurs especially with regards to receptivity, the locus of Kant‘s transcendental idealism and empirical realism. In the interest of establishing a relationship between the subject and a ground for a system of empirical cognition (which would respond to his skeptic critics), the reflections in the Op end with a different image of the Kantian subject. An added fold is found within the subject‘s capacity for receptivity, one that involves within it a necessary ―act of positing.‖ The meaning of positing here accords with the self-affective function that the concept was shown to have in the KrV while at the same time approximating the existential significance it possessed in the BDG and NM. Within Kant‘s subjectivism, the making of experience is made possible through a facultative assemblage that enables this subject to receive the given or data for all thought. In the doctrine of self-positing, this assemblage involves the capacity for the subject to posit the whole of filled space; this is a whole where dynamical forces are thought of as arranged according to the very relations that are singular to space qua pure form of intuition. Thus, while what is posited is the concept or object of such a whole, the internal relations of its content correspond still to the subjective forms of intuition. The fact that this positing is a priori does not affect Kant‘s critical position. This is the case because, starting from the position of actuality – with the I think as an empirical proposition – an analysis of the conditions for the possibility of that actual experience shows the necessity of the position of such a filled space. It does this not 171
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The Doctrine of Self-positing and R
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Abstract of the Dissertation The Do
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Contents Abbreviations vi Preface v
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Preface The interest in the Opus po
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Acknowledgments I am in the debt of
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Introduction The Selbstsetzungslehr
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of receptivity‖ reveals also the
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enables thinkers in the twenty firs
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form of ―principles of synthesis
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a transition that has its own ―sp
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the English language literature tha
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his account was circular. As Först
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fascicle written by Kant between 18
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the doctrine of self-positing attem
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preemptively with this retrospectiv
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meaning of its particular relations
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ii. a. Ontological Proof In its com
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ecause the only operative rule for
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In the context of the BDG, the natu
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3. It is unconditionally impossible
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. We know that a condition for inne
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Realerklährung - an explanation of
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ii. b. Setzung‘s Function as Posi
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Negation can also result from chang
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ii. Kritik der reinen Vernunft ii.
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foreclosed. This is precisely what
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none of this is particularly new. N
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elations of thoroughgoing determina
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that exhibits it must share in the
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of this ideal and its final personi
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it perceives only its effects. In a
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category causality in the second an
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Just as time functions as the form
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spontaneous nature. Or perhaps it r
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points to the fact that in the act
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latter (as for the other dynamical
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unity is expressed. In the second a
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Kant‘s new transcendental idealis
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idealize what can be claimed to be.
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The structure in the schematic of t
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critical model entails thus the sub
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continuous reiteration of the most
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[machen] of experience with the sou
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and not actuality. 103 These fields
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functions as ground to a universal
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appearance, phenomenon, and noumeno
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Handschrift, when he writes: The mi
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thought. While the spirit of the cr
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faculties of representation in ligh
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particularly in their presence, uni
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knower to thin an objective represe
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doctrine, the name is oftentimes qu
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to intuition. This status brings to
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―Paralogisms‖ section. 136 Desp
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the Selbstsetzungslehre. In this re
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Not being able to be thought by the
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This connection between the single
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it concerns the possibility of the
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perspective of its relation to the
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apperception and b) the synthetic o
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and the section ―On the Paralogis
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synthetic determination of its intu
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on the possibility of attaching the
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