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Because the nature of our reason presupposes space and time.
Collision presupposes space, but primitive forces constitute matter prior to any spatial concepts — the primitive active and passive forces ground motion and extension respectively.
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The advocate of DA will take laws such as Newton's as not presupposing background space-time, but rather entailing that things behave 'as if' they were embedded in such a background.
The third argument in the Metaphysical Exposition seems to imply, as we have seen, that the representation of any place presupposes the representation of space itself.
However, the third argument may have more bite: if Kant is right in contending that the representation of any place presupposes the representation of space itself, then perhaps that representation lacks the ordinary part-whole structure of a concept.
To put the point in a way that highlights a parallel with the first argument of the Metaphysical Exposition: the representation of any place presupposes the representation of space.
There is an interplay between recollections and anticipations, and between beliefs and inferences — all of which both opens up and presupposes a temporal space.
The compression of space presupposes rapid-fire forms of technology; shifts in our experiences of territory depend on concomitant changes in the temporality of human action.
The very fact that Boltzmann considers intervals for the values of $x$ and $y$ of arbitrary small sizes, and stressed the distinction between rational and irrational values of the ratio $a/b$, indicates that he did not silently presuppose that phase space was essentially discrete, where those distinctions would make no sense.
The distinction between what counts as matter in contrast to empty space presupposed in the earlier debates has been eclipsed by possibilities undreamt of before the introduction of modern field theory and relativity.[1] I'd like to thank John Norton for observations which led to many improvements.
However, the composition of bodies from monads as basic elements presupposes their juxtaposition in space (20 278).
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