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IN answer to my invitation, Mr. Lewes now “freely admits that Kant nowhere speaks of Space and Time as ‘Forms of Thought,’” but still contends that ‘Kant would not have disclaimed such language, as misrepresenting his meaning.’ As well might he argue that although Euclid never uses the word epipedon (our English word plane or plain), to signify a curved surface (επιφανεια), he would not have remonstrated against the use of the term cylindrical epipedon or conical epipedon, to denote the surface of a cylinder or cone, in a professed exposition or criticism of his Elements of Geometry, because in common life we speak of rough or undulating plains, or because a plane admits of being bent into the shape of a cylindrical or conical surface. I think the ladies who are getting up their Planes and Solids at St. George's Hall would be of a different opinion from Mr. Lewes in this matter, and with good reason on their side.
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SYLVESTER, J. Kant's View of Space. Nature 1, 360 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001360a0
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