... as the principle of the figurative synthesis, i.e., of the forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute syntheticactivity of the ... respect to space and time one can glimpse it too in the deduction of the categories, where the original syntheticunity of apperception finally comes to the fore. Here, the original synthetic unity of ... it is the account of what has preceded it (and thus is the “truth” of the preceding). Second, it is also “true being” and not merely the “pure being” that was the topic of the beginning of the...