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A Synthesis (n.) originally ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠meant not the gluing together of mental representations but letting something be seen as something.

A Synthesis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ground of falsehood: to say falsely that white is not white, I must already have brought 'not white' together with white.

Synthesis (n.) ends ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only with a whole that is no longer part of anything — the world — just as analysis ends only with a part that is no longer a whole.

A Synthesis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠when something no longer takes the form of just letting something be seen, but is always harking back to something else, it thus acquires a synthesis-structure, and with this is born the possibility of covering up.

A Synthesis (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠judgement is not adding a quality to a thing: we do not first think 'badly positioned' and then glue it to the board; the board is first taken as a unity, and taken apart so that the unity makes itself known.