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    It is not the case that Composing synthesis can account for world-unity

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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