Mr Nemo
May 6, 2022

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You’re most welcome.

Yes, spatial perception, on Kant’s view, as spatial intuition, is an innate capacity/faculty in all sentient animals including human animals: so it’s operative in all infant proprioception, as well in the infant’s other senses.

The concept of space, by contrast, is the product of the understanding, although grounded on spatial intuition, & it’s a discursive achievement, hence it requires the emergence of linguistic competence in the child.

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Mr Nemo
Mr Nemo

Written by Mr Nemo

Formerly Captain Nemo. A not-so-very-angry, but still unemployed, full-time philosopher-nobody.

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