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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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It is therefore from the human point of view only that we can speak of space, extended objects, etc. All this is easily applied to the present question, why a considerable distance in time produces a greater veneration for the distant objects than a like removal in space. For, in the contrary case, it would be limited by a void time on the one hand, and by a void space on the other. Space, therefore, cannot be regarded as absolutely and in itself something determinative of the existence of things, because it is not itself an object, but only the form of possible objects. All evasions, such as the statement that objects of sense do not conform to the rules of construction in space (for example, to the rule of the infinite divisibility of lines or angles), must fall to the ground. Every limited space is hence divisible to infinity. Moreover, these parts cannot antecede this one all-embracing space, as the component parts from which the aggregate can be made up, but can be cogitated only as existing in it. The simple but empirically determined consciousness of my own existence proves the existence of external objects in space.