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"Since these forms [categories] serve only to connect objects and not to produce them" It's not that simple

"the extent of space can never be greater than the extent of things that fill it" i don't know, i would try to argue that it not only is but has to be

Space is not a schema for difference, because we can conceive a deaf-blind person conceiving differences merely through the power of memory. Rhythms. Schema is after all supposed to be something that is shared by all those that it is a schema of. Space, then, has something that is not simply tied to difference ie. difference is not what is essential about it

but this is the chicken and egg problem again

"the form of sensibility is the schema of this difference" oh no so it collapses on this view again...He tries to argue for this with the fact that difference is a more universal concept than space/time, because all difference must appear within them. But you could rather say: since all difference must appear in intuition and not vice versa, it is conditioned by intuition rather than the other way around

...although his explanation of conditions of appearance still seems a bit weird, I can at least integrate some of this now to my understanding of Kant in order to enrich it, rather than just provide fodder for many inevitable debates and the like

So, here we come to the main part of this book, after what seemed like a bit poorly structured beginning: Maimon posits forms of perceptions in between conditions of appearance and concepts of understanding. Forms of perceptions are unity and difference. This is what makes the manifold "a manifold", pre-categorially, without influence of categories of relation

Chps 4-5 seem to move to just summarizing CPR stuff, kind of discontinuously when preceded by the strong criticisms of previous chapters. Weirdly structured text.