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    If space is reducible to non-spatial relational propertie... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Things in themselves—objects considered qua objects of discursive cognition in general—are not in space.

    If space is reducible to non-spatial relational properties of things in themselves, then things in themselves are not non-spatial but rather constitute the deeper ground from which spatial structure is abstracted.

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    Key Terms

    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Reducible to(as used in philosophy generally)
    Able to be broken down into or explained using simpler parts; when something complicated can be shown to just be made of something simpler.
    abstracted(in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Pulled out or separated from something concrete to create a more general idea or concept; taken from the particular to understand the universal.
    ground(Contrasted with mere necessary conditions for rightness)
    That which makes an act right; the basis of rightness or obligation
    non-spatial(in metaphysics)

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    Not existing in or occupying physical space; something that doesn't have a location, size, or position in the way physical objects do.
    relational properties(Contrasted with intrinsic properties in the property-dualist two-aspects theory)
    Properties of objects that appear to us and are spatial and temporal
    things in themselves(Kant's critical system)
    Entities posited as existing independently of human representation, distinct from appearances

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