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Single Idea 5534

[from 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Immanuel Kant, in 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / c. Idealist time ]

Full Idea

Time is a necessary representation that grounds all intuitions. In regard to appearances in general on cannot remove time, though one can very well take the appearances away from time. Time is therefore given a priori.

Gist of Idea

One can never imagine appearances without time, so it is given a priori

Source

Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], B046/A31)

Book Reference

Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.162


A Reaction

As with space, the notion that time is a purely a priori intuition, and not a real feature of the 'space-time manifold' strikes me as absurd (though, unlike space, a reductive account of time might be possible), but its absence is indeed unimaginable.