Possibly nothing in Kant’s philosophy has left more room for confusion and debate than his writings on the pure intuition of space. In no small part this is due to Kant’s aggravatingly brief discussion of what was nothing less than a radical and revolutionary idea in philosophy. But in part it is also due to a pervasive tendency to admix the idea of space with that of geometry, and to a seeming obviousness of what is meant by the term “space.” For most of us, “space” taken as an object means “physical space,” and there would seem to.
