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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.

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In the first place, it is evident that both present us, with very many apodeictic and synthetic propositions a priori, but especially space--and for this reason we shall prefer it for investigation at present.

 Transcendental idealism allows that the objects of external intuition--as intuited in space, and all changes in time--as represented by the internal sense, are real. Hence it follows that an a priori intuition (which is not empirical) lies at the root of all our conceptions of space. The simple but empirically determined consciousness of my own existence proves the existence of external objects in space. Thus space and time were the intelligible form of the connection of things (substances and their states) in themselves. But, inasmuch as one part of space is not given, but only limited, by and through another, we must also consider every limited space as conditioned, in so far as it presupposes some other space as the condition of its limitation, and so on.  Our system concerning space and time consists of two parts, which are intimately connected together. But the use of the conception in this science extends only to the external world of sense, the pure form of the intuition of which is space; and in this world, therefore, all geometrical cognition, because it is founded upon a priori intuition, possesses immediate evidence, and the objects of this cognition are given a priori (as regards their form) in intuition by and through the cognition itself. 

And thus Leibnitz regarded space as a certain order in the community of substances, and time as the dynamical sequence of their states.

 All phenomena contain, as regards their form, an intuition in space and time, which lies a priori at the foundation of all without exception.