PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Transcendental Philosophy, Noumenon, Transcendent Theosophy
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Forms of intution: the general principles that determine how the material that is given to the mind by intuition will be given, what form it will take, in what general way it will be given. Sensibility: the faculty of intuition (see above entries), i. e. the receptive or passive faculty of receiving intuition; contrast this with understanding, which is not passive but active in kant"s terms, spontaneous". Understanding (to be vivid) takes the intuitions of sensibility and synthesizes them, that is, classi es (or subsumes") them under general concepts. For example, sensibility feeds in an unsynthesized intuition like white-cube- here-now," and the understanding converts this into a correct sentence or a synthetic judgment": Here, now, there is a white cube. beware: sometimes kant also says that sensibility supplies the intuitions, understanding supplies the concepts, and imagination performs the synthesis.
