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Full Idea
If everything empirical, namely what belongs to sensation, is taken away from the empirical intuition of bodies and their changes (motion), space and time are still left.
Gist of Idea
If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left
Source
Immanuel Kant (Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic [1781], 284)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic', ed/tr. Lucas,Peter G. [Manchester UP 1971], p.39
A Reaction
This is an exercise in psychological abstraction, which doesn't sound like good evidence, though it is an interesting claim. Physicists want to hijack this debate, but I like Kant's idea.
| 14525 | Stoics say time is incorporeal and self-sufficient; Epicurus says it is a property of properties of things [Epicurus] |
| 13311 | Does time exist on its own? Did anything precede it? Did it pre-exist the cosmos? [Seneca] |
| 22915 | Newton needs intervals of time, to define velocity and acceleration [Newton, by Le Poidevin] |
| 22893 | Newton thought his laws of motion needed absolute time [Newton, by Bardon] |
| 17012 | Time exists independently, and flows uniformly [Newton] |
| 14012 | Absolute time, from its own nature, flows equably, without relation to anything external [Newton] |
| 5536 | If space and time exist absolutely, we must assume the existence of two pointless non-entities [Kant] |
| 16921 | If all empirical sensation of bodies is removed, space and time are still left [Kant] |
| 24141 | Having a sense of time presupposes absolute time [Nietzsche] |
| 12689 | Simultaneity can be temporal equidistance from the Big Bang [Ellis] |
| 18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
| 16264 | I believe the passing of time is a fundamental fact about the world [Maudlin] |
| 14013 | Special Relativity allows an absolute past, future, elsewhere and simultaneity [Bourne] |