Kant made Euclid & Newton foundational. Mid-20th-C Kantians refused to accept relativity and non-Euclidean geometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_theory_of_relativity#Philosophical_criticism …
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Yup! Although, he was trying to respond to the hyper-skepticism of Hume, which is also wrong; maybe was reasonable move at the time.
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why is the former a blunder?
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it's likely that space does not exist. relativistic time (as opposed to elementary state transition) is emergent observer dependent
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