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    Composing synthesis can account for world-unity

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    • 1.We are conscious that infinite space can be subdivided infinitely into finite spatial parts
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    • 2.All finite spatial parts are represented as parts of one all-encompassing infinite space
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    • 3.The unity of all finite spatial parts within infinite space — world-unity — must be accounted for by composing synthesis
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    • 1.Composing synthesis operates successively on discrete finite parts, generating only potential totalities, never an actually given infinite whole.
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    • 2.Kant himself argues in the Critique that infinite space is given as a singular intuition prior to any synthesis of parts, not constructed from them.
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    • 3.A process that presupposes the infinite whole as its horizon cannot be the ground of that whole's unity without vicious circularity.
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    • 1.World-unity requires the unity of a determinate totality of all possible experience, which exceeds any finite compositional act.
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    • 2.Kant's Antinomy of Pure Reason demonstrates that treating the world as a completed whole produced by synthesis generates irresolvable contradictions, suggesting composing synthesis is categorially unfit to ground world-unity.
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    As Rosefeldt notes, the conclusion of the second step, the applicability of the categories to space and time, requires appeal to a composing synthesis, since the decomposing synthesis precedes all concepts, and only in the composing synthesis are the categories invoked. Thus a transition from the decomposing to a composing synthesis must be made. One possible strategy is to claim that a composing synthesis is not required for our representation of space as whole, but only for our representations
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