Abstract
The first two parts of the study deal with the reasons why Kant refuses intuition as a faculty of human knowledge and with a synthetic function that appertains to the knowledge in imagination (Einbildungskraft). Intuitive construction from mathematical concepts and a different use of reason within philosophy, which must be discoursive, is described in the third part.
The fourth part turns to an anthropological aspect of the problem and follows the causes leading to a distortion of imagination into fantasy which brings about a sickness of the mind that is falsely claimed by the faculty of intuition. In the fifth part, the limits of Kant's concept of intuition are sketched based on the work of a Czech philosopher Vladimír Hoppe.
The last part attempts at finding this limit in the notion of a metaphor as a symbolic hypotyposis.