Full Idea
Because of the multidimensionality of space and unidimensionality of time, empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not.
Gist of Idea
Empty space is measurable in ways in which empty time necessarily is not
Source
report of Jonathan Bennett (Kant's Analytic [1966], p.175) by Sydney Shoemaker - Time Without Change p.49 n4
Book Reference
Shoemaker,Sydney: 'Identity, Cause and Mind' [OUP 2003], p.49
A Reaction
An interesting observation, which could have been used by Samuel Clarke in his attempts to prove absolute space to Leibniz. The point does not prove absolute space, of course, but it seems to make a difference.