RECOGNITION

[A103] An act of the mind associated with the categories, which (in part) accounts for the order which our minds introduce to the empirically real world. In the Deduction in A Kant discusses a synthesis of recognition which is necessary for successive representations of a manifold to form a whole. [A124] He suggests that this synthesis of recognition follows the act of apprehension and synthesis of association (also called the synthesis of reproduction). He writes, that the "grounds of the recognition of the manifold...are the categories". He suggests, in the Deduction in A at least, that, employed both purely and empirically, the syntheses of recognition and reproduction are responsible for our mind introducing order in nature; through these acts of synthesis "...the order and regularity of appearances, which we entitle nature, we ourselves introduce. We could never find them in appearances, had we not ourselves, or the nature of our mind, originally set them here."