Consequently, the categories, without schemata are merely functions of the understanding for the production of conceptions, but do not represent any object.
Thus, the schemata of the pure conceptions of the understanding are the true and only conditions whereby our understanding receives an application to objects, and consequently significance.
If by intelligible objects we understand things which can be thought by means of the pure categories, without the need of the schemata of sensibility, such objects are impossible.
The schemata are applicable only to natural existences in space and time.
It may also be noted that time is taken as conditioning the schemata of all the categories.
It is so dated by Adickes,[1334] owing to the reference to schemata in its opening sentence.
Had Kant restricted the term category to denote the pure forms, and invariably employed the term schemata to signify their more concrete counterparts, many ambiguities and confusions would have been prevented.
The pure concepts of the understanding, whose schemata Kant is endeavouring to define, are altogether different in nature from sensuous representations, and can never be reduced in any form or degree to an image.
Even the definitions which he proceeds to give of the various schemata do not really support this description of them.
The new deductions of the schemata of number and quality, which he now proceeds to formulate, are quite unnecessary, and also are by no means conclusive in the manner of their proof.
His account of the first two transcendental schemata makes a wholly irrelevant appeal to the temporal process of synthesis on our part, while his account of the remaining schemata makes no attempt to appeal to it at all.
It merely asserts that certain conceptions relating to objects and involving the thought of time are the schemata corresponding to the remaining categories, without any attempt to connect them with the nature of a schema.
The account of the schemata of the remaining categories need not be considered.
Now, in order to determine whether schemata can constitute the desired link between the pure conceptions or categories and the manifold of sense, it is necessary to follow closely this account of a schema.
If, therefore, Kant succeeds in finding schemata of the categories in detail in the sense in which they are required for the solution of his problem, i.
Such transcendental determinations of time are theschemata of the pure conceptions of the understanding.
This is borne out by the list of the schemata of the categories.
The categories of relation take their schemata from the order of time; for if I would represent to myself a determinate relation, I always bring into thought a determinate order of things in time.
The barrenschemata of concentration, passage into heterogeneity, adaptation, etc.
The conditions thus established will be found to correspond to the schemata shown in Figs.
Series of schemata showing normal and variant adult types of biliary and pancreatic ducts.
This library of Cortona possesses a manuscript of Moroncelli titled "Sacrometria omnium asterismorum continens schemata figuris ecclesiasticis expressa Silvestri Amantii Moroncelli Fabrianensis ecc.
Armed with this hypothesis the eye is quick "to see that it brings with it the power of seeing," and to impose its own forms and schemata on the phenomena offered to its observation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "schemata" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
