Temporization and Time

Just as 'Space' for Kant is 'the Form of Outer Sense', for him 'Time' is 'the Form of Inner Sense'. The following example illustrates what for him is 'Inner Sense'. One perceives the front of a house, and then one perceives the side of the house. Now, if the house is rotating, the connection between the two perceptions is first and foremost 'outer'. But, it is also 'inner', which can be more easily discerned if the house is not moving at all, but one has walked around to the side of the house. In the latter case, the connection is privately experienced as a succession of perceptions, and it is the privacy that constitutes for Kant 'innerness', while 'Time' is that successiveness. But, in order for a series of perceptions to be in 'Inner Sense', it plainly needs to first be referred to it, as opposed to some outer object, e. g. the house. In other words, it must be preceded by a process of Internalization. What, in Kant's analysis, precedes the arrival in Inner Sense is a representing of the original perception, so the original perception needs to have already occurred in order for it to be represented. So, the very process of representation itself entails successiveness--first the original perception, and then the representation of the latter. Furthermore, just as a photo includes its object, representation internalizes what it represents. Thus, 'Inner Sense' is the product of Internalization, and, similarly, Time is the product of a process of Temporization. In the Formaterial System, Propriation is that process of Internalization, so Temporization can be defined as the 'structure of Propriation'. So, Kant's definition of Time is not inaccurate, but insufficient. Now, the foregoing demonstrates that the single fundamental 'dimension' of Time is 'inside of'. That is, the immediate object of any representation is always an action articulated in the present perfect progressive tense, e. g. I am aware that I have been looking at a house--even if one continues to look at the house as one makes the articulation, the articulation can represent only what has already actually occurred. The representation treats the represented as terminated, more precisely, as having led up to the terminating representation. So, in more tradional temporal terminology, 'inside of' is a relation between past and present. In other words, 'future' is not a fundamental Temporal dimension, to be discussed subsequently in more detail.