Objectivity And Unity

The idea of different premises encourages once more the analytical hopes which people seemed forced to suspend so long as the concept of "objectivity" figured among the premised features of experience. Immanuel Kant maintains that for representations thus to have an objective reference, it is necessary that they should possess or exhibit a certain unity or connectedness among themselves. Clearly the relations between the classifications are at least a little more complex than this suggestion would allow; and there are oddities of inclusion and arrangement which set a pattern to be repeated with persistent artificiality throughout the Transcendental Logic. At times Kant seems to turn for an answer to a special kind of "transcendental self-consciousness" associated with the activity of the faculty of understanding. Most are connected with the subjectivity thesis regarding the order of Nature, the thesis which corresponds on the side of understanding to the thesis of transcendental idealism on the side of sensibility.

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