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    Challenges→The empiricist account of spatial representation faces a burden of explanation regarding the conceivability of empty space

    If spatial representation is derived from object-perception, explaining how we conceive of space devoid of objects requires justification

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    One might read Kant’s second argument instead as straightforwardly targeting the view that the representation of space is empirical. Kant claims that we cannot represent the absence of space, but that we can represent space as empty of objects. His point may be that empiricist philosophers who contend that the representation of space is obtained from the perception of objects must bear the burden of explaining how it is possible for us to conceive of space as empty of such objects. This consider

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