Immanuel Kant is an 18th century
German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of
epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and teleology. He developed a theory of knowledge in which knowledge about space can be both a priori and synthetic
According to Kant, knowledge about space is synthetic,
in that statements about space are not simply true by virtue of the meaning of
the words in the statement. In his work, Kant rejected the view that space must
be either a substance or relation. Instead he came to the conclusion that space
and time are not discovered by humans to be objective features of the world,
but are part of an unavoidable systematic framework for organizing our
experiences.
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