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No determination of things can be intuited before the things exist

No determination of things, absolute or relative, can be intuited prior to the existence of the things to which it belongs, hence not a priori.

The sentence that gives the reason for conclusion (a) at A 26 / B 42 (AA 3:55.06–08). It is stated without argument in that place.

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a-kant-space-not-of-things-in-themselvesSpace is not a determination of things in themselves, because it is intuited a priori

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Kritik der reinen Vernunft A 26 / B 42, Transcendental Aesthetic §3, conclusions (a) (AA 3:55.02–08)korpora.org, AA III 55

a) Der Raum stellt gar keine Eigenschaft irgend einiger Dinge an sich, oder sie in ihrem Verhältniß auf einander vor, d. i. keine Bestimmung derselben, die an Gegenständen selbst haftete, und welche bliebe, wenn man auch von allen subjectiven Bedingungen der Anschauung abstrahirte. Denn weder absolute, noch relative Bestimmungen können vor dem Dasein der Dinge, welchen sie zukommen, mithin nicht a priori angeschaut werden.

a) Space represents no property at all of any things in themselves, nor them in their relation to one another; that is, no determination of them that would attach to the objects themselves and that would remain even if one abstracted from all subjective conditions of intuition. For neither absolute nor relative determinations can be intuited prior to the existence of the things to which they belong, hence not a priori. — the project

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