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    Challenges→Newton's container view of space does not resolve the problem of incongruent counterparts.

    Adding non-human objects (an anorak, a scarf, a shoe) to the container does not determine the glove's handedness.

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    A single glove floating in an empty Newtonian container has no intrins...84%A left-handed glove and a right-handed glove have identical internal p...77%If God had created just one glove, it would determinately have been ei...76%Leibniz's relational view of space cannot distinguish between a left-h...75%

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    Kant’s conviction that the existence of incongruent counterparts proved that “space in general does not belong to the properties or relations of things in themselves” (4: 484) is not easy to understand, but his basic argument in the 1768 essay is that Leibniz’s view does not enable one to distinguish between a left handed glove and a right handed glove, insofar as the relations of all the parts to one another are the same in both cases. Yet if God had created just one glove, it would have been o

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