Kant also emphasizes that space requires the 'synthesis of imagination' in the Transcendental Deduction, suggesting construction plays a constitutive role in spatial representation.

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Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Transcendental Deduction(The Critique of Pure Reason; the deduction spans multiple sections and is not complete at §20): Kant's argument establishing the legitimate application of the pure concepts of the understanding (categories) to objects of experience
constitutive role(how human understanding actually works according to this philosophical position): The idea that the subject (the person experiencing) actively shapes or creates what they know, rather than passively receiving knowledge from the world.
spatial representation(what we're trying to determine is real or illusory): The way our minds picture and understand space, distance, and how objects are positioned around us.

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