Brad Hewitt

Kant’s goal in the metaphysical expositions of space and time is to show that space and time are both a priori and intuitions.  By this, he means that space and time are neither empirically induced nor innate knowledge; they are independent of empirical observation and induction but they are also observations (intuitions) rather than concepts.  Kant directs this argument against both the empiricists, who claim space and time are empirical concepts, and some kind of Platonist, who would claim that space and time are concepts that we have innately.

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