Oyonale - Créations 3D et expériences graphiques
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By the word synthesis, in its most general signification, I understand the process of joining different representations to each other and of comprehending their diversity in one cognition. Nay, it is also quite unknown to us whether any such transcendental or extraordinary cognition is possible under any circumstances, at least, whether it is possible by means of our categories. We are quickly obliged to forget our own interest in our judgments of this kind, by reason of the perpetual contradictions, we meet with in society and conversation, from persons that are not placed in the same situation, and have not the same interest with ourselves. A painter forms the same fiction with regard to colours. In conformity, however, with scholastic usage, we must permit it to occupy a place in metaphysics--but only as an appendix to it. In this opinion they are almost unanimous; and it is only in the inference they draw from it, that they discover any difference in their sentiments. A person, in whom we discover any passion or habit, which originally is only incommodious to himself, becomes always disagreeable to us, merely on its account; as on the other hand, one whose character is only dangerous and disagreeable to others, can never be satisfied with himself, as long as he is sensible of that disadvantage.
These representations, in so far as they are connected and determinable in this relation (in space and time) according to laws of the unity of experience, are called objects. Such topics, therefore, ought entirely to be foreborn, as serving nothing to the discovery of truth, but only to make the person of an antagonist odious.