CRITIQUE-32

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CRITIQUE-32

INTRANSCENDENTAL DOCTRINE OF ELEMENTS-2

Transcendental Analytic Chapter2

Of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding

Section2

Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts

of the understanding

16Of the Original Synthesis Unity of Apperception

It must be possible for the I think to accompany all my representations.

That representation which can be given priori to all thought is called intuition, and all the manifold of intuition has, therefore, a necessary relation to the I think in the same subject in which this manifold of intuition is found.

This presentation (the I think), however , is an act of spontaneity, that is ,int cannot be considered as belonging to sensibility.

I call it pure apperception, or also original apperception, because it is that self-consciousness which, by producing the representation, I think(which must be capable of accompanying all other representations, and which is one and the same in all consciousness).

I also call the unity of apperception the transcendental unity of self-consciousness, in order to indicate that a priori knowledge can be obtained from it.