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The world is consequently, as regards extension in space, not infinite, but enclosed in limits. Easy-to-use index There is another very decisive argument, which establishes the present doctrine concerning our ideas of space and time, and is founded only on that simple principle, that our ideas of them are compounded of parts, which are indivisible. Its truth is supported by the fact that it is possible to perceive a determination of time only by means of a change in external relations (motion) to the permanent in space (for example, we become aware of the sun's motion by observing the changes of his relation to the objects of this earth). SECTION I. Of Space. SS 2. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception. Space (filled or void)* may therefore be limited by phenomena, but phenomena cannot be limited by an empty space without them. We know no other properties that make up the conception of substance phenomenal in space, and which we term matter. But the pure faculty (of the understanding) of prescribing laws a priori to phenomena by means of mere categories, is not competent to enounce other or more laws than those on which a nature in general, as a conformability to law of phenomena of space and time, depends.