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 title: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self
 published: 2024-07-24
-description: 'Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self'
+description: Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self
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 tags: ["Theory"]
 category: 'Theory'
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 objects. It is Kant's answer to the quid juris question. Exactly how the objective deduction goes is highly
 controversial, a controversy that we will sidestep here. The subjective deduction is about what the mind, the
 “subjective sources” of understanding, must as a consequence be like. The subjective deduction is what mainly interests
-us.
+us.
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+_Kant argues as follows. Our experiences have objects, that is, they are about something. The objects of our experiences
+are discrete, unified particulars. To have such particulars available to it, the mind must construct them based on
+sensible input. To construct them, the mind must do three kinds of synthesis. It must generate temporal and spatial
+structure (Synthesis of Apprehension in Intuition). It must associate spatio-temporally structured items with other
+spatio-temporally structured items (Synthesis of Reproduction in the Imagination). And it must recognize items using
+concepts, the Categories in particular (Synthesis of Recognition in a Concept)_. This threefold doctrine of synthesis is
+one of the cornerstones of Kant's model of the mind. We will consider it in more detail in the next Section.