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A spurious axiom of the first class is: Whatever is, is somewhere and sometime.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
The concept of space is not abstracted from external sensations.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
A whole from necessary substances is impossible. The whole, therefore, of substances is a whole of contingent things, and the world consists essentially of only contingent things.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
The mind intent upon resolving as well as compounding the concept of a composite demands and presumes boundaries in which it may acquiesce in the former as well as in the latter direction.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
The concept of space, therefore, is a pure intuition, being a singular concept, not made up by sensations, but itself the fundamental form of all external sensation.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
As the analysis of a substantial composite terminates only in a part which is not a whole, that is, in a simple part, so synthesis terminates only in a whole which is not a part, that is, the world.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)
Percepts and phenomena which precedes the logical use of the intellect is called appearance, while the reflex knowledge originating from several appearances compared by the intellect is called experience.
Kant's Inaugural Dissertation (1770)