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    Challenges→Kant's third argument conflates the relation between space and its parts with the relation between the representation of space and its constituents

    If the argument concerns representation, there is no reason to expect the concept of space to be constructed from the concept of place specifically

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    It is not clear that this argument is successful. It seems, e.g., to conflate the following: (1) the relation between space and its parts; and, (2) the relation between the representation of space and its constituents. Without this conflation, it is not clear why we should expect to construct our concept of space from our concept of place. It would seem more sensible to construct our concept of space from other concepts, such as that of infinity, or that of a magnitude, and so on, rather than fr

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