Space, The Body, Outside

For Kant, Space is the form of outer sense, i. e. that by which objects can be intuited as "outside of us". His 'us' is ambiguous, in two respects. First, even though it is literally plural, he likely means it as a singular pronoun. Second, of greater significance is that it can mean either 'one's body' or 'one's mind'. That it means the latter follows from his treatment of the body as subject to Newtonian principles, and, hence, as an occupant of objective Space just like any other item subject to those laws of Nature. In other words, he holds that the body is an object of intuition in Space, not that Space is outside the body. Therefore, his concept of Space presupposes one of one's body as an otherwise characterless entity the attributes of which are bestowed on it only via the intuition of it. Conversely, a different concept of one's body, e. g. as a center of action, could yield a different concept of Space, e. g. one it which Space begins at the periphery of the physical agent, and radiates outwardly.