In this article I will try to show: 0.1. The chapter on the Schematism deals with the problem which today more than at any time before is recognized as a very real and most difficult problem -the problem of pattern-recognition; 0.2. The epistemological significance and achievement of the chapter lies in seeing the problem and trying to begin its analysis and the formulation of what has to be demanded of adequate answers -not in the answers themselves. Today it is not difficult to see that Kant's answers are for the most part immanently unsatisfactory because they are not up to his problem analysis and do not fulfill his own demands as to what a schema has to contain.
Also, looked at from today's 'knowledge' about the problem of pattern recognition, it is rather obvious that his answers could not possibly be even approximately adequate because he and his time simply lacked the necessary means (especially logic of relations, theory of information, cybernetic systemstheory). It seems quite possible that we stiU lack some of the necessary means for an adequate solution even today. 0.3. Nevertheless, I will try to show or at least to hint at the possibility that our modern computerscientific researches on pattern recognition may very well learn something that may be an essential condition for getting a satisfactory solution from one of Kant's formulations of one of his schemata. 0.4. More or less by the way it will be seen that and why schemata cannot be identical either with the categories or with the corresponding principles.