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    Space is not an object in any clear sense. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is doubly difficult to conclude that we have something akin to a perception of space.

    Space is not an object in any clear sense.

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    Kant’s view that we have an intuition, rather than a concept, of space can be seen to raise a difficult problem: space is not an object, and yet intuition seems to provide us with something akin to a perception of something. As Lucy Allais puts it, intuition involves “presence to consciousness of an object” (Allais 2015, 197ff), and yet space is not an object. It is difficult to see why we should think of ourselves as perceiving space at all. It is easy enough to understand the idea that some or

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