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 theoretical reason.
 
 Transcendental Aesthetic
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+Kant attempts to distinguish the contribution to cognition made by our receptive faculty of sensibility from that made
+solely by the objects that affectus, and argues that space and time are pure forms of all intuition contributed by our
+own faculty of sensibility, and therefore forms of which we can have a priori knowledge.
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+This is the basis for Kant's resolution of the debate about space and time that had raged between the Newtonians, who
+held space and time to be self-subsisting entities existing independently of the objects that occupy them, and the
+Leibnizians, who held space and time to be systems of relations, conceptual constructs based on non-relational
+properties inhering in the things we think of as spatiotemporally related
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+Kant's alternative to both of these positions is that space and time are neither subsistent beings nor inherent in
+things as they are in themselves, but are rather only
+forms of our sensibility, hence conditions under which objects of experience can be given at all and the fundamental
+principle of their representation and individuation
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+Kant's thesis that space and time are pure forms of intuition leads him to the paradoxical conclusion that although
+space and time are empirically real, they are transcendentally ideal, and so are the objects given in !hem. Although
+the precise meaning of this claim remains subject to debate, in general terms it is the claim that it is only from
+the human standpoint that we can speak of space, time, and the spatiotemporality of the objects of experience, thus
+that we cognize these things not as they are in themselves but only as they appear under the conditions of our
+sensibility. This is Kant's famous doctrine of __transcendental idealism__