DISCURSIVE

[A31/B47] Kant contrasts discursive concepts ("general concepts") with time, which is not discursive but a form of sensible intuition. [A68/B93] By holding that our intellect is discursive, Kant holds that our knowledge of objects involves the application of concepts to the intuitive "given". When characterizing understanding at the beginning of the analytic of concepts, Kant writes "the knowledge yielded by understanding, or at least by the human understanding, must...be by means of concepts, and so is not intuitive, but discursive."