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What I mean by "Kant's framework" is basically these three theses: 1. There are internal perceptual manifolds, distinct from mind-independent space-time. 2. Space adn time are preconditions of experience as such, i.e. we cannot ever get rid of them in our description of the world. They're not reducible to causal relations between events. 3. This doesn't require assuming Newtonian absolute space (relativism).

And Kant furthermore asserts that: 4. In addition to (1), there is no mind-independent space-time, space and time as such are mind-dependent. This means that our descriptions of the world are necessarily, e.g. Euclidean.

I don't think (1), (2), (3) are at all controversial, although only (2) and its consequences are a contribution of Kant himself, but (4) is, I'm pretty sure, quite universally rejected nowadays.




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