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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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Space and time, as conditions of the possibility of the presentation of objects to us, are valid no further than for objects of sense, consequently, only for experience. We have a priori forms of the external and internal sensuous intuition in the representations of space and time, and to these must the synthesis of apprehension of the manifold in a phenomenon be always comformable, because the synthesis itself can only take place according to these forms. It would be unjust to accuse us of holding the long-decried theory of empirical idealism, which, while admitting the reality of space, denies, or at least doubts, the existence of bodies extended in it, and thus leaves us without a sufficient criterion of reality and illusion. Thus space and time were the intelligible form of the connection of things (substances and their states) in themselves. Better Memory: Consequently, the world, as regards space, is not limited, that is, it is infinite in regard to extension.* [*Footnote; Space is merely the form of external intuition (formal intuition), and not a real object which can be externally perceived. This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time). 3. The mere form of intuition, without substance, is in itself no object, but the merely formal condition of an object (as phenomenon), as pure space and pure time. Of this we find a striking example in the cognitions of space and its relations, which form the foundation of pure mathematics.