Danto I 133
Synthetic a priori/Kant: before any exploration of the world recognizable - on this he builds the mere possibility of doing philosophy at all. - Because it is non-empirical-
Analytically/Kant: E.g. "Every cause has an effect." - Not analytically: "All events have causes." - It does not belong to the meaning of "event" that it has a cause. - But still synthetically a priori: - E.g. "Every event has a cause". - (Variation of Leibniz's law). - It defines what it means for the universe to be intellectually understandable.
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Apperception, >
apprehension, >
Subject/Kant, >
Experience/Kant.
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Danto I 211
Experience/representation/continuity/internalism/Danto: continuity is not given in experience. - Otherwise, there would not be the question of whether existence is continuous.
Solution/Kant: mental synthesis.
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Strawson V 26
Synthesis/Kant: the process of production of the unity of experience - there cannot be empirical knowledge of the synthesis - is only obtained through it.
V 81
Synthesis/Kant: aware, but not how I appear to myself, but only that I am. - Thinking, not watching. - Kant/Strawson: Kant Synthesis is based on differentiation of the capabilities of sensibility and understanding. - StrawsonVs: We try without them.
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Bubner I 100
Judgment/Synthesis/Kant: the unity of the synthetically summarized gives the questionable relationship of concepts the necessary determinateness. This determinateness also bears the reference to the object, which is always included in the judgment as a knowledge claim.
"Synthesis alone is what actually collects the elements into knowledge and unites them to a certain content."
This is achieved by the fact that Kant equals (definition) terms with conceptual contents.
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Judgment/Kant.
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I 103
Synthesis/Kant: it is originally unified and equally valid for all connections. The reference to the action also seems to answer the question of unity. ((s) because it comes from activity, not from the objects).
It contains three moments:
1. the given manifold
2. the connecting
3. the unit
There is no independent "unit pole", which, so to speak, appears as one of the many elements next to the connecting elements.
The unity is not opposed to the many as an isolated principle.
Therefore idealism speaks of the identity of identity and non-identity.
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I 104
Unity/Synthesis/Idealism/Kant: the place of unity can now be designated, it is the pure action-character of the synthesis. This action-character goes beyond all individual connections, preceds all actual combinations, and is never to be exhausted by so many synthetic acts.
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Unity/Kant.
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I 108
Synthesis/Vs Kant: his successors have revealed the weakness that there is no evidence for the highest point of this thought chain.
