PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Absolute Time And Space
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Geometric synthetic a priori - how can we know? (triangle) A straight line between two point is the shortest (predicate and conjunction) Newton - a big box receptical and newton called it absolute space (one particular thing with whole parts) The object of your experience is epistemically prior to the idea of space ---> empiricism. Kant - first is the knowledge of space and then the knowledge of particular objects. Imagine seeing a choke (without being in the space) - first is the form of space then it is necessary to learn new objects by empiricism. Space is the relations between objects of perceptions. Leibniz - monads (souls and spirits) - it is not physical; monads perceive things for instance perceiving two people. Exhaustive list for this relation of this things. Kant - the space depend on the minds there is no external space that is outside of us. A cowboy and not cowboy in the board.
