MANIFOLD

[A77/B102] Before they are synthesized, various given intuitions form a manifold, by being successively "received" by the "a priori manifold" of the forms of sensibility (time and space); namely, the intuitions form the manifold of intuition, which then undergoes various pure and empirical synthesis before being experienced. Thus, the manifold (Short for the manifold of intuition) is the material for synthesis, is the manifold of "given" representations (as opposed to the "imposed" representations of the understanding, concepts)