At the end of 4:282, Kant says that intuition can "precede the actuality of the object" only if "it contains nothing else than the form of sensibility." Later, towards the end of 4:283, he says "(Space and time) are pure intuitions, which are the ground a priori of the empirical intuitions, and hence can never be taken away themselves, but prove, precisely by being pure intuitions a priori, that they are mere forms of our sensibility which must preced all empirical intuition . . . and in conformity with which objects can be known a priori, though indeed only as they appear to us."
I am not sure that I understand BUT:
Is Kant saying that time and space are necessary? That is, they can't but be?
He has previously stated that intuited knowledge is "constructed" (4:281). The above quote demonstrates his notion that we interpret what is "out there" in terms of our a priori constructions. Is he reducing everything we think of as "out there" to internal objects?
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