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    It is not the case that Space exists necessarily

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    • 1.Clarke's argument conflates conceivability with possibility: failing to imagine space's removal may reflect cognitive limits, not metaphysical necessity.
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    • 2.Kant demonstrates that space is a form of human intuition, making it epistemically indispensable but not an independently necessary existent.
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    • 3.A condition being necessary for thought or experience does not entail that it exists necessarily as a mind-independent feature of reality.
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    • 1.Leibniz argues space is relational—a system of possible co-existences among substances—meaning space without objects is not a genuine entity that could 'remain.'
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    • 2.If space is relational rather than absolute, Clarke's reductio fails: removing all matter removes the relations constituting space, with no remainder to generate contradiction.
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    • 1.To suppose any part of space removed is to suppose it removed from and out of itself
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    • 2.To suppose the whole of space to be taken away is to suppose it taken away from itself while it still remains
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    • 3.Supposing space to be taken away while it still remains is a contradiction in terms
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