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