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Full Idea
Thus the representation of space cannot be obtained from the relations of outer appearance through experience, but this outer experience is itself first possible only through this representation.
Gist of Idea
We can't learn of space through experience; experience of space needs its representation
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B038/A23)
Book Ref
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.175
A Reaction
There is an obvious symbiosis between the mental experience of such things as space and the nature of the thing itself, but I don't see what basis Kant can have for his confident distinction.
| 13180 | Space is the order of coexisting possibles [Leibniz] |
| 17736 | We can't learn of space through experience; experience of space needs its representation [Kant] |
| 5531 | Space is an a priori necessary basic intuition, as we cannot imagine its absence [Kant] |
| 16922 | Space must have three dimensions, because only three lines can meet at right angles [Kant] |
| 24096 | Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche] |
| 6468 | There is 'private space', and there is also the 'space of perspectives' [Russell] |
| 7552 | Six dimensions are needed for a particular, three within its own space, and three to locate that space [Russell] |
| 15321 | Space can't be an individual (in space), but it is present in all places [Harré/Madden] |
| 21112 | Empty space contains a continual flux of brief virtual particles [Krauss] |
| 9922 | If space is really just a force-field, then it is a physical entity [Burgess/Rosen] |
| 10683 | We could ignore space, and just talk of the shape of matter [Hossack] |
| 19947 | Hilbert Space is an abstraction representing all possible states of a quantum system [New Sci.] |