ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant was interested in providing the foundations for empirical knowledge and mathematical knowledge. Hegel’s definition of space as pure externality, or the outsideness of things to each other, appears to bear at least some resemblance to Kant’s first argument in his metaphysical exposition of the concept of space. Space, which is what makes possible the distinction of inside-outside, must already be known before one could know that something could be outside. When philosophers in the past referred to ‘isness’ or ‘thusness’ or ‘existence’ or ‘being in general’, they were attempting to articulate the concept of space, but could only do so with a lisp. In pure phenomenology, there is no interest in inferring that space and/or time are forms of intuition. In making some such claim one is always vulnerable to the charge of so-called faculty psychology.
