Full Idea
The categories of oneness and manyness are the basis of what Kant terms 'synthetic judgements a priori'.
Gist of Idea
Kant bases the synthetic a priori on the categories of oneness and manyness
Source
report of Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781]) by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 1 'First'
Book Reference
Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.19
A Reaction
This is a solution to the paradoxes of one and many that bothered Plato. I think it is best seen in our capacity to count things, and the individuation which must precede that. Atomism and holism.
Related Idea
Idea 13259 It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]