Schematic Mediation in the Critique of Pure Reason: Synthesis of Imagination and Schematism

• Ferreira Oliveira, Eliakim ^[1]
  1. [1] University of São Paulo/Université Paris Cité/HTL
• Localización: Con-textos Kantianos: International Journal of Philosophy, ISSN-e 2386-7655, Vol. 23, 2026, págs. 127-138
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/kant.105451
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  • My aim in this article is to propose an interpretation of the schematism of the pure concepts of the understanding, in order to elucidate the relation between schematism and the a priori synthesis of imagination. The guiding questions may be formulated as follows: What exactly does Kant mean when he claims that the “schema is a product of the imagination”? What is the relation between this statement and the one in §10, according to which synthesis is an effect of imagination, or the one in the B Deduction, according to which imagination performs a transcendental synthesis? I defend the thesis that, insofar as imagination determines time a priori according to the unity of the categories, it translates each of them into a temporal language (or a language of transcendental imagination), that is, it gives sense to the category in the determination of the object when it is thought according to temporal patterns.

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