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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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And so would it really be, if the pure understanding were capable of an immediate application to objects, and if space and time were determinations of things in themselves.

 No experience is required For as by means of this unity alone (the understanding determining the sensibility) space and time are given as intuitions, it follows that the unity of this intuition a priori belongs to space and time, and not to the conception of the understanding (SS 20).] 

Hence, with him, space and time were possible--the former through the relation of substances, the latter through the connection of their determinations with each other, as causes and effects.

  It may not be amiss, before we leave this subject, to explain the ideas of existence and of external existence; which have their difficulties, as well as the ideas of space and time. All substances, in so far as they can be perceived in space at the same time, exist in a state of complete reciprocity of action. Nothing further is necessary, then, for the solution of the first cosmological problem, than to decide, whether, in the regress to the unconditioned quantity of the universe (as regards space and time), this never limited ascent ought to be called a regressus in infinitum or indefinitum. 
So also, the application of space to objects in general would be transcendental; but if it be limited to objects of sense it is empirical.
 All phenomena contain, as regards their form, an intuition in space and time, which lies a priori at the foundation of all without exception. Secondly, the real in space--that is, matter--is conditioned.