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Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher of the eighteenth century, was the first eminent thinker to find a deep philosophical significance in mirror imagery. That an asymmetric object could exist in either of two mirror-image forms seemed to Kant both puzzling and mysterious. Before discussing some of the implications Kant drew from left-right asymmetry, let us first see if we can recapture something of the mood in which he approached this topic.
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Gardner, M. (1991). The Fourth Dimension. In: Van Cleve, J., Frederick, R.E. (eds) The Philosophy of Right and Left. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3736-2_10
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