SUCCESSION

[B219] Succession is one of three modes of times, all of which are highly interdependent, the other two being duration and coexistence. [B154] Kant holds that we "successively determine inner sense" (i..e, construct time) in the synthesis of the manifold of intuitions; it is a crucial Kantian thesis that apprehension of the manifold is successive. In the Second Analogy he distinguishes two ways in which the apprehension is successive, namely, subjectively and objectively, and argues that the possibility of synthesizing the manifold as successive (i.e., even in a "subjective" sense) requires our representing events as causally determined, i.e., as each event necessarily succeeding its cause.