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

category causality in the second analogy. There is a third context in which the concept
is used, precisely within passages that very much resemble or echo ideas on the
Selbstsetzungslehre. Due to this, it seemed more appropriate to address them directly
within the later interpretation of the Selbstsetzungslehre.
iii. a. 1. Self-affection
In the ―Transcendental Aesthetic‖ of the KrV, setzen is used at times to describe
the subject‘s ability to affect itself through the representational functions of the mind. 74
Since any form of affection assumes that there is a cognitive level open to undergoing
such affection as well as a capacity to effect the latter, the famous purported problem of
the interaction between the faculties of sensibility and understanding comes to the fore
here. While the latter is certainly of interest in itself (and briefly discussed within its
historical context in chapter two), the focus here will however treat different possible
roles that space and time can play within the faculty of receptivity. These subjective
forms of intuition can serve or instantiate what in philosophy are normally conceived as
mutually exclusive domains: as a priori form as well as content. Space and time exhibit
these two sides of intuition in their role as condition for the possibility of cognition in
general.
With respect to time as the subject‘s a priori form of all intuition, Setzen means
the act of inserting ―into it‖ the representations of outer sense, or, which in this context is
the same, ―the material with which we occupy our mind‖ (reminiscent of the data
74 Krv, B67-8-9.
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