Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic the Transcendental Essay

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Thus, as I encounter a rock on the ground, outside, among other rocks, I have a sense of its space and of the space in relation to all other objects in it. A rock found floating in the air, nowhere near other rocks, inside a jar gives a completely different sense of the space of a rock and how it relates to the world around it. We intuit our understanding of space as it is merely an arbitrary designation we use to create further categorizations of the objects in our universe. Space, then, in its relationship to objects is both arbitrary and natural, but neither is real in and of itself.

We experience objects in the context of time as well as space. Time too is a non-entity. It cannot be measured in any real way other than the arbitrary and non-empirical measurements we have placed upon the concept of time as we, in a generally cultural manner, understand the passage of time and how one time may relate to another either before or behind or that never was or will be. However, the fact of time, which is a priori, makes it so that there cannot be two points of time happening simultaneously. Time, then, is linear in reality but can be "bent" in our experiences of time. Time is understood at the most primitive levels as something which is always moving along a past/present/future state and that now is always now and will always be now while it moves.

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Thus, time is not an object, but it is a subjective condition that we intuit within ourselves. This makes time an inner sense rather than an external one (space).

Time's effect on our knowledge is to place a reference point that allows us to think back on, look at, and ponder the future of our relationship with a particular thing. if, for example, we experience a mountain in our youth, again in our middle age, and again in old age, the mountain itself is likely to be relatively unchanged. Thus, time and space senses tell us that mountains are immovable and unchanging. However, if we were to encounter an apple in the same contexts, we would understand that the apple is a highly changeable object. Neither space or time exist as objects, but their reality provide a framework of understanding of the universe. Thus, our understanding and "sense" of an object and indeed all objects, is built in relation to both space and time - contexts that exist in a transcendental state - two points of time cannot exist together, but our sense memory of time and space can exist simultaneously at all times. Thus, the transcendental aesthetic is, and only is, our sensible intution about the universe formed within the framework of the two (and only two) elements of space and time......

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