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    The categories structure our representation of space and time, and space and time themselves, together with the spatial and temporal features of objects in space and time.

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    • 1.Composing syntheses generally must feature the categories.
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    • 2.The categories structure our representation of space.
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    • 3.By parallel argument, the categories structure our representation of time.
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    • 1.Space and time are pure intuitions given independently of the understanding, as Kant himself argues in the Transcendental Aesthetic.
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    • 2.If space and time are pre-categorial forms of sensibility, the categories cannot constitute their fundamental structure without collapsing the Aesthetic/Analytic distinction.
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    • 3.Strawson and Longuenesse both note this tension: making categories constitutive of intuition undermines the independence Kant grants to sensibility.
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    • 1.Hegel argues in the Science of Logic that the categories are not fixed cognitive impositions but are self-determining moments of thought that cannot be statically 'applied' to intuition.
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    • 2.If the categories are themselves subject to dialectical revision and development, they cannot serve as stable, universal structures of spatial and temporal representation.
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    Since it has already been shown that composing syntheses generally must feature the categories, the claim is that we can infer that the categories structure our representation of space, and by parallel argument, our representation of time, and, moreover (in accord with Kant’s idealism), that they structure space and time themselves, together with the spatial and temporal features of objects in space and time. This allows us to see that the categories correctly apply to objects in space and time,
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