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    Challenges→The unity expressed by (W) is insufficient to generate the need for synthesis of intuitive elements

    If a subject is merely possibly or actually serially conscious of the elements of an intuition, synthesis into a unified intuition is not required

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    which allows that the individual elements of the intuition are such that the subject can only become conscious of each separately, perhaps in turn. He contends, however, that the unity expressed by (W) is insufficient to generate this need for synthesis. If I am merely (possibly or actually) serially conscious of the elements of an intuition, it won’t be required that I synthesize them into a unified intuition. Howell goes on to argue that while (W) is credible, Kant cannot in fact establish (S)

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