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In order fully to convince the reader of this certainty, we shall select a case which will serve to make its validity apparent, and also to illustrate what has been said in SS 3. Suppose, then, that space and time are in themselves objective, and conditions of the--possibility of objects as things in themselves. Space ought not to be called a compositum but a totum, for its parts are possible in the whole, and not the whole by means of the parts. For in the conception of matter, I do not cogitate its permanency, but merely its presence in space, which it fills. Space, therefore, consists only of spaces, and time of times. And as in this series of aggregated spaces (for example, the feet in a rood), beginning with a given portion of space, those which continue to be annexed form the condition of the limits of the former--the measurement of a space must also be regarded as a synthesis of the series of the conditions of a given conditioned. It is, moreover, not necessary that we should limit the mode of intuition in space and time to the sensuous faculty of man. For in the conception of matter, I do not cogitate its permanency, but merely its presence in space, which it fills. - We have intended, then, to say that all our intuition is nothing but the representation of phenomena; that the things which we intuite, are not in themselves the same as our representations of them in intuition, nor are their relations in themselves so constituted as they appear to us; and that if we take away the subject, or even only the subjective constitution of our senses in general, then not only the nature and relations of objects in space and time, but even space and time themselves disappear; and that these, as phenomena, cannot exist in themselves, but only in us.
SECT. VII OF CONTIGUITY AND DISTANCE IN SPACE AND TIME