>>23979628
I'm reading it now. What stuck out to me the most is the following in the metaphysical exposition of the concept of time:
>"We cannot remove time itself from appearances in general, though we can quite well take away appearances from time."
The only way I could concieve of removing time from appearance is to imagine it frozen in time. Is that wrong? If im right then I find it perfectly plausible that we can remove time from appearances.

>>23979659
>I would suggest that time itself cannot exist without space, because in order for the concept of time to have any meaning, objects must move within some physical volume, or at least some other (non-physical) space where duration is relevant.
What causes time to have meaning is alteration, not movement. Yes the concept of physical movement requires an understanding of space, but you've put the cart before the horse. Did you read the Transcendental Aesthetic?
>"Here I shall add that the conception of alteration, and with it the conception of motion, as alteration of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time..."
this exhibits the difference. But importantly, Kant argues time is just the form of "inner sense"
>" Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state. For time cannot be any determination of outward phenomena. It has to do neither with shape nor position; on the contrary, it determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And precisely because this internal intuition presents to us no shape or form, we endeavour to supply this want by analogies, and represent the course of time by a line progressing to infinity, the content of which constitutes a series which is only of one dimension"
So time is just how we inwardly arrange our representations. But if we represent the course of time by a one-dimensional line, doesn't that require an understanding of space? Honestly its all very confusing to think about.

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