Kant Lexicon

Sensibility

A19/B33: "The capacity (receptivity) for receiving representations through the mode in which we are affected by objects, is entitled sensibility. Objects are given to us by means of sensibility, and it alone yields us intuitions."

A51/B75: ". . . The receptivity of our mind, its power of receiving representations in so far as it is in any wise affected, is to be entitled sensibility . . . ."

Sensibility represents objects through intuition. "Our nature is so constituted that our intuition can never be other than sensible; that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects" (A51/B75). That is, unlike the understanding's ability to produce its objects (concepts), sensibility is not originating of its representations (intuitions).

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