ABSTRACT
In order to explain the essentials of the Kantian position, it is useful to employ the analogy of spatio-temporal sunglasses. For Kant, neither space nor time is an absolute reality that is objectively 'out there'. However, space and time provide the necessary framework through which we read experience. Just as everything that we see through pink sunglasses looks pink, so the Kantian model suggests that we perceive what we call reality through spatio-temporal sunglasses which we are unable to remove from our noses. The world - the phenomenal world - that we perceive is represented in terms of 3D spatiality in which we construct
objects, and a unitary temporal sequence by which these objects are related together into an ordered whole. What does the constructing is the transcendental imagination. This is what synthesizes the data supplied by the senses and brings those data (or 'intuitions') under rules ('categories') supplied by the understanding.
