transcendental unity of apperception

noun

1. (in Kantian epistemology) the meaningful organization, within the consciousness, of individual objects of perception.

Example Sentences

By this I do not mean that these representations necessarily belong to each other in empirical perception, but that they belong to each other by means of the necessary unity of apperception in the synthesis of perceptions, that is, according to principles of the objective determination of all our representations, in so far as knowledge can arise from them, these principles being all derived from the principle of the transcendental unity of apperception.

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It is by means of the transcendental unity of apperception that all the manifold, given in an intuition is united into a conception of the object.

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The transcendental unity of apperception is alone objectively valid; the empirical which we do not consider in this essay, and which is merely a unity deduced from the former under given conditions in concreto, possesses only subjective validity.

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I do not mean by this, that these representations do necessarily belong to each other in empirical intuition, but that by means of the necessary unity of appreciation they belong to each other in the synthesis of intuitions, that is to say, they belong to each other according to principles of the objective determination of all our representations, in so far as cognition can arise from them, these principles being all deduced from the main principle of the transcendental unity of apperception.

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