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NOTE TO CHAPTER XI. 



KANT ON SPACE AND TIME. 



LEST it should be said that I have done injustice to 

 Kant in my representation of his teaching on the 

 unreality of Space and Time, I proceed to quote his 

 words on the subject from the Critique of Pure Reason. 

 The quotations are taken from " The Philosophy of 

 Kant, as contained in extracts from his own writ- 

 ings, selected and arranged by John Watson, LL.D., 

 Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of 

 Queen's College, Kingston, Canada." 1 



First, as to Space: 



" It is, therefore, purely from our human point of 

 view that we can speak of Space, of extended things, 

 etc. Suppose the subjective conditions to be taken 

 away, without which we cannot have any external 

 perception, or be affected by objects, the idea of Space 

 ceases to have any meaning. We cannot predicate 

 1 Glasgow : Maclehose and Sons, 1888. 



