ABSTRACT

What we saw by the close of the previous chapter is that intuitions are complex representations of complex objects as such, and that they are, therefore, conceptually-inferentially structured. We also saw that the constituents of such intuitions are sensations, which are the non-conceptual representations of the parts of the object represented by the intuition. What all of this left open, however, is the question of precisely what this complex object represented by an intuition is represented as . We know that an object is represented as a complex of its parts, but there is more to Kant’s story here, and we have not said much more about this essential part of his system. It is the purpose of the current chapter to fi ll that lacuna.