horizonal schema

is a temporal framework that allows us to understand Being and encounter beings, for, as Kant already noted, in order to apply to our sensations, the categories have to be "schematized" in terms of time.

In our discussion of §7 we saw that Heidegger characterizes his own project as "transcendental" (62/38). For Kant, transcendental knowledge is knowledge of the basic conditions that make experience possible, such as our category of causality. Kant claims that in order to apply to our sensations, the categories have to be "schematized" in terms of time: for instance, the "schema" of causality is succession in time (we expect the cause to precede the effect in time). In very general terms, then, we can describe a schema as a temporal framework that makes it possible for us to understand our experience. This is what the "horizonal schema" does for Heidegger: it is a temporal framework that allows us to understand Being and encounter beings.

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horizonal schema