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    A manifold of simultaneous intuitions, prior to synthesis... — Carmelics
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    A manifold of simultaneous intuitions, prior to synthesis, would be an undifferentiated, seamless unity rather than a set of distinguishable impressions.

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    • 1.Each representation, insofar as it is contained in a single moment, can never be anything but absolute unity.
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    • 2.Prior to synthesis and conceptual organization, simultaneous impressions arrive together without differentiation.
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    • 1.Hume's bundle theory demonstrates that pre-synthesized impressions are already qualitatively distinct by virtue of their intrinsic phenomenal properties.
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    • 2.Distinctness of sensory qualities (red vs. loud) is a feature of the impressions themselves, not conferred by an act of synthesis or conceptual unification.
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    • 1.Gestalt psychology and its philosophical interpreters show that perceptual differentiation—figure/ground separation—occurs pre-conceptually and prior to active cognitive synthesis.
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    • 2.If pre-synthetic experience already exhibits structured contrast and salience, the manifold cannot be the undifferentiated unity the claim presupposes.
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    The idea behind the strange saying just quoted seems to be this. Kant seems to have believed that we can become conscious of only one new item at a time. Thus a group of simultaneous ‘impressions’ all arriving at the same time would be indistinguishable, “for each representation [Vorstellung], in so far as it is contained in a single moment, can never be anything but absolute unity” (A99). Kant’s use of Vorstellung, with its suggestion of synthesized, conceptualized organization, may have been u
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