Kant on the givenness of space and time.
Famously, Kant describes space and time as infinite "given" magnitudes. An influential interpretative tradition reads this as a claim about phenomenological presence to the mind: in claiming that space and time are given, this reading holds, Kant means to claim that we have phenomenological access t...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 877 - 899 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2022
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