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In that demonstration, it was taken for granted that the world is a thing in itself--given in its totality prior to all regress, and a determined position in space and time was denied to it--if it was not considered as occupying all time and all space. 4. Space is represented as an infinite given quantity. Space, therefore, consists only of spaces, and time of times. But in this case, no a priori synthetical cognition of them could be possible, consequently not through pure conceptions of space and the science which determines these conceptions, that is to say, geometry, would itself be impossible. [*Footnote; Space and time, and all portions thereof, are intuitions; consequently are, with a manifold for their content, single representations. 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. It certainly seems that, as a body must be cogitated as substance in space, the law of divisibility would not be applicable to it as substance. When, then, for example, I make the empirical intuition of a house by apprehension of the manifold contained therein into a perception, the necessary unity of space and of my external sensuous intuition lies at the foundation of this act, and I, as it were, draw the form of the house conformably to this synthetical unity of the manifold in space. This synthesis is pure when the diversity is not given empirically but a priori (as that in space and time).