Resumen de Sinossi e Sintesi in Kant
In this paper I claim that, in Kant’s theory of sensibility, the pure forms of intuition exercise a proto-synthetic activity upon the manifold, thus properly allowing its givenness. By this I mean that the receptivity of all sensible representations entails a spatio-temporal framing. Such a formal but still sensible synthesis, whose necessity Kant clarifies in the Transcendental Aesthetic, corresponds to the activity called synopsis to which Kant refers in the first edition of the Transcendental Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. Understanding this correspondence means to understand 1) that receptivity and passivity are not synonymous; 2) that a possible synthesis does not coincide with a necessary unity.
The categories can therefore be applied to intuitions insofar as every intuition allows the givenness of a manifold by giving to it a spatio-temporal shape.
