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The divisibility of a body rests upon the divisibility of space, which is the condition of the possibility of the body as an extended whole. But this principle is the first principle of all the operations of our understanding, so that we cannot form the least conception of any other possible understanding, either of one such as should be itself intuition, or possess a sensuous intuition, but with forms different from those of space and time. SECTION I. Of Space. SS 2. Metaphysical Exposition of this Conception. The ideas of space and time are therefore no separate or distinct ideas, but merely those of the manner or order, in which objects exist: Or in other words, it is impossible to conceive either a vacuum and extension without matter, or a time, when there was no succession or change in any real existence. It follows that this must hold good of all things that are in the different parts of space at the same time, however similar and equal one may be to another. But space and time are in the world of sense. - 4th. This philosopher's celebrated doctrine of space and time, in which he intellectualized these forms of sensibility, originated in the same delusion of transcendental reflection.
But if I join the condition to the conception and say, "All things, as external phenomena, are beside each other in space," then the rule is valid universally, and without any limitation.