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    Supports→If one follows the letter of Kant's third argument, the apparent conflation can be avoided

    The first sentence of Kant's third argument states that space ('Der Raum') is not a concept but an intuition

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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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