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   by xyzuuu888 2y ago

   I'm pretty sure there were already in the 19th century people, like Helmholtz, Riemann etc. who saw themselves as Kantians, but nevertheless developed many of the techniques that later made GR possible (while acknowledging that they ch
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   by xyzuuu888 2y ago

   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 cann
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   by xyzuuu888 2y ago

   I'm pretty sure you don't find any passage in Kant where he says anything remotely like "Gallilean/neo-Newtonian space-time is absolutely true and forever true" (these words or the term "Euclidean geometry&quot