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[A143/B182] The intensive magnitude of a sensation. In the Schematism Kant argues that qua possessor of magnitude, sensations therefore have intensive degrees and are representable as extensive and intensive quanta. [A166/B207] In the Anticipations of Perceptions, Kant explicitly identifies degree with the intensive magnitude of a sensation. "This magnitude is generated in the act of apprehension" and, in effect, is the intensity of a sensation. All sensation contains an intensive magnitude and thus is a sensation to a certain degree.