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    Without synthesis and judgment as its vehicle, an ordering of representations cannot explain how we distinguish between objectively valid phenomena (objects) and the subjective states those phenomena induce.

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    • 1.An ordering of representations without synthesis and judgment might reflect what appears to be the case.
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    • 2.Distinguishing objectively valid phenomena (objects) from the subjective states they induce requires more than a mere appearance-reflecting ordering.
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    • 3.Synthesis and judgment are the vehicle by which objective validity is secured for representations.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that causal ordering of impressions arises from habitual association, not from judgment, yet still tracks mind-independent regularities.
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    • 2.If associative regularities reliably co-vary with external causal structures, they provide a non-judgmental basis for distinguishing object from subjective state.
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    • 3.Kant's demand for synthesis therefore imports a rationalist commitment rather than establishing a necessary condition for objective representation.
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    • 1.Husserl's passive synthesis shows that pre-predicative experience already constitutes object-directed intentionality prior to active judgment.
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    • 2.If objects are constituted at the level of passive synthesis without explicit categorial judgment, synthesis need not be the vehicle of objective validity as Kant claims.
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    Objects
    Objects are things that exist in the physical or abstract world that we can think about, identify, and interact with. They can be concrete items like a chair or a phone, or abstract things like ideas, numbers, or feelings. Essentially, an object is anything that can be pointed to, described, or used in some way.
    Subjective states(the private experiences the argument discusses)
    Your personal, inner experiences that only you directly have access to—like what pain feels like to you, your emotions, or what a color looks like from your perspective.
    Synthesis(Hegel's speculative moment)
    A new concept that unifies two earlier, opposed concepts, arising as the positive result of their contradiction.
    judgment(Russell and Ramsey's multiple-relation theory of judgment)
    A multiple relation of the mind or mental factors to many objects — the constituents of the proposition judged — rather than a single relation to a single propositional object
    objectively valid(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Real and true in a way that doesn't depend on any individual person's feelings or opinions; something that exists independent of what anyone thinks about it.
    ordering of representations(as used in cognitive philosophy)
    The way your mind arranges and organizes mental images, ideas, or perceptions to make sense of them.
    phenomena(Distinguished from data in the context of scientific explanation)
    The targets of scientific learning, inferred from data rather than identical to data itself

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    In §19, Kant argues that there must be a certain way in which each of my representations is unified in the subject, and he identifies this way with judgment: “I find that a judgment is nothing but the manner in which given cognitions are brought to the objective unity of apperception” (B141). Judgment, Kant proposes, is objectively rather than subjectively valid, and hence exhibits the type of universality and necessity that characterizes objective validity (B142). He then claims that without sy
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