APPLICATION OF CATEGORIES,—SPACE, TIME, AND POSITION. 557 
periences. For in order that certain sensations may be referred to something external to 
me (that is, to something in another part of space to that in which I am), and likewise in 
order that I may be able to represent them as without of and near to each other, conse- 
quently not merely different, but as in different places, the representation of space* for 
this purpose must already lie at the foundation. ‘The representation of space cannot 
therefore be borrowed from the relations of the external phenomenon by experience, but 
this external experience is itself first only possible by the stated representation. 
390. “2d. Space is a necessary representation @ priori, which lies at the foundation of 
all external intuitions. We can never make to ourselves a representation of this,—that 
there is no space,—although we may very readily think that no objects therein are to be 
met with. It is therefore regarded as the condition of the possibility of phenomena, and 
not as a determination depending upon them, and it is a representation @ priori, which 
necessarily lies at the foundation of all external phenomena.f 
391. “3d. Space is no discursive, or as we may say, universal conception of the rela- 
tionships of things in general, but a pure intuition. For in the first place, one can only 
figure to oneself, one space, and when we speak of several spaces, we then understand by 
this only parts of one and the same single space. These parts too, could not precede the 
sole all-embracing space, as if constituent parts of the same (whence its aggregate is possi- 
ble), but only in it can they be thought. It is essentially one,—the diversity in it, con- 
sequently also the universal conception of spaces in general rests solely upon limitations. 
Hence it follows, that in respect of it, an intuition @ priori (which is not empirical), lies 
at the foundation of all conceptions of it. And thus all geometrical propositions, for ex- 
ample this: ‘That im a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third,’ never 
could be deduced from the general conceptions of line and triangle,f but from intuition, 
and certainly @ priori, with apodictical certainty. 
392. “4th. Space is represented as an infinite given quantity. We must, indeed, think 
each conception as a representation which is contained in an endless multitude of different 
possible representations (as their common sign); consequently it contains these in itself; 
but no conception as such can be so thought, as if it contained an infinite§ multitude of 
* Observe that Kant does not say space itself, but merely “the representation of space.” 
+ Lam unable to reconcile this second clause with any belief which does not recognize an objective reality of 
space. Kant speaks of the representation of space as something subjective, and a representation seems necessarily 
to imply a thing represented. The admission that we can make no representation of the non-being of space, 
. places its existence among the fundamental self-evident faiths that cannot be rejected without annihilating all 
certainty. Hvery one who admits both an objective and a subjective phase of phenomena, must also admit an ob- 
jective as well as a subjective Space, “‘as the condition of the possibility of phenomena.” 
{ The author’s meaning is here somewhat obscure and questionable. 
§ The ambiguity of the word znjinite, invalidates this whole argument. 
