In Schematism of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding Kant explicitly deals with the products of the transcendental synthesis of the imagination, which unites the pure concepts with pure intuition. This chapter explains what is transcendental schema and to delineate the function of schema in the overall argument of Transcendental Analytic. Also the chapter aims to explain the principle of synthetic judgments:

We’ll focus on the Second Edition of Transcendental Deduction. Argument in Second Edition Deduction is structured in a way that the central problem is the demonstration of a connection between the intellectual and sensible conditions of human knowledge.

“Intellectual conditions of human knowledge” means the pure concepts of understanding, or categories in Kant’s term. The demonstration of the objective reality of these categories is the task of Transcendental Deduction. Before we do this, we ned to first identify them, this is covered in Metaphysical Deduction in CPR.

Three possibilities regard the ontological status of space and time are introduced, first is the absolutistic theory by Newton, which advocated that space and time are real existences. Second is the relational view from Leibniz, according to which they are determinations or relations of things. The third is the critical view, that they belong only to the form of intuition and to the subjective constitution of our mind, apart from which they could not be ascribed to anything whatsoever.

This chapter will discuss the specific conditions in support of Kant’s claims for epistemic conditions in transcendental idealism. We will examine the account for the discursive nature of human cognition and theory of judgment underlies it.