ABSTRACT

From the human standpoint, there is space outside the mind. But when we abandon this standpoint and take up a different standpoint, one that does not share the assumptions of the human standpoint, we cannot say that there is space. Indeed, according to Kant, from that standpoint we must say that there is no space. On the next page of the Critique, Kant identifies these standpoints as the empirical and transcendental, and he speaks of space as empirically real and transcendentally ideal.