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Kant’s second invocation of incongruent counterparts occurs in his Inaugural Dissertation of 1770, a work written and presented on the occasion of his promotion to Professor of Philosophy at the University of Königsberg. In this work, he no longer used incongruent counterparts to show that space is an absolute being. Instead he used them to illustrate a point that he was later to defend at greater length in the Transcendental Aesthetic of the Critique of Pure Reason: our representation of space and spatial figures is intuitive, not conceptual.
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Van Cleve, J. (1991). Introduction to the Arguments of 1770 and 1783. 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_2
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