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    Supports→Objects cannot have spatio-temporal structure independently of our representing them as spatio-temporal

    Our particular representations necessarily have spatio-temporal structure due to our forms of intuition

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    The decisive point of this argument is the following: although because of our forms of intuition our particular representations necessarily have spatio-temporal structure, any objects that had that structure independently of our so representing them would at best have such structure contingently, and thus the supposedly synthetic a priori propositions about space, time, and their mathematics would not be necessarily true throughout their domain. This argument thus exploits the key epistemologica

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