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The Critique of Pure Reason

Note 20 — Chapter II · Of the Deduction of the Pure Conceptions of the Understanding

J. M. D. (John Miller Dow) Meiklejohn translation

Motion of an object in space does not belong to a pure science, consequently not to geometry; because, that a thing is movable cannot be known à priori, but only from experience. But motion, considered as the description of a space, is a pure act of the successive synthesis of the manifold in external intuition by means of productive imagination, and belongs not only to geometry, but even to transcendental philosophy.

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