Spatialization and Space

While it represents an advance over its predecessors, Kant's definition of Space, 'the Form of Outer Sense', still obscures its essence in two respects. First, as has been discussed, it lacks an explanation of Outerness. Neither Stoic detachment nor Sartreian 'flight', while separating one from one's environment, fail to characterize the latter as 'outside' the Subject. Schelling more promisingly describes 'Space' as being created by the I pushing its environment away from it, but, again, this 'Space', as is, divides only two side-by-side realms. Instead, 'Outer' is meaningful only with respect to 'Inner', namely, as generated by a process of Externalization, which must arise from within. In one's experience, only 'locomotility', namely an internally generated change of position, seems to qualify as such. A more familiar example of locomotility is intentional action, namely the generation of motion by a thought, for which the general term here is Exposition. In other words, the objects of 'Outer' sense are all, first and foremost, objects that one might encounter in motion, which corresponds to the role that the senses play in everyday activities. So, Kant's first shortcoming is to associate Outerness with the cognitive, not the behavioral sphere. Second, as e. g. Schelling underscores, Space entails separation, but 'Form' entails linkage. In other words, Form is antithetical to the essence of Space, which Kant seems to overlook in his eagerness to present Geometry, and its closed figures, as the Science of 'Space'. Thus, instead, in the Formaterial System, 'Space' is the product of 'Spatialization', which is the general structure of Exposition, and the fundamental 'dimension' of Space is 'outside of'. The traditional 'dimensions' of traditional 'Space', not to mention further additions proposed by contemporary Physics, are all the products of projections of the one dimension, in combination with constructions that can only come from other resources, to be discussed soon. Finally, insofar as an 'Object' is anything outside the Subject, Spatialization is also Objectivization.