Space-Time

The varying conceptions of Space and Time that have been presented throughout intellectual history all apparently agree that whatever they are, they are given as such. Even Kant treats them as complete structures involved in experiential events. However, they are not ready-made, but are the products of processes, namely, of Spatialization and Temporalization, respectively. The former is a process of opening, in three senses--separating, exposing, and starting. The latter creates successiveness with the retaining by a novel moment of one already given. In the Kantian scheme, these are the processes of externalization and internalization that first produce the distinction between Outer and Inner, the senses of which Space and Time, respectively, are the Forms. They presuppose one another, but are irreducible to one another, and are essentially heterogeneous. One application of that result is to the notion 'Space-Time' that is prominent in contemporary Physics. If what that notion entails are merely concepts of quantified 'Space' and quantified 'Time', then the notion is easily justified by its computational efficiency and theoretical fruitfulness. But, if that the combination is presumed to denote some actual experiential synthesis, the preceding analysis undercuts any such presumption.