[445] Cf. above, pp. 99-100; below, pp. 126, 180-1, 184, 338-9.
[446] Cf. below, p. 180.
[447] Cf. above, p. xxxvi; below, pp. 176 ff., 191, 195-6, 257, 290-1, 404 ff., 413.
[448] This statement occurs in a parenthesis; it has already been dwelt upon in the fourth (third) argument.
[449] It has led Kant to substitute erörtern for betrachten in A 23 = B 38.
[450] Cf. Vaihinger, ii. p. 151.
[451] § 1 (Eng. trans, p. 13). Cf. above, p. 64.
[452] This is, no doubt, one reason why Kant employs, in reference to space, the unfortunate and confusing term concept (Begriff) in place of the wider term representation (Vorstellung). Cf. B 37, and above, p. 64.
[453] Cf. A 729 = B 757: “In place of the term definition I should prefer to employ the term exposition. For that is a more guarded expression, the claims of which the critic may allow as being in a certain degree valid even though he entertain doubts as to the completeness of the analysis.” Cf. Logic, §§ 99 ff., 105. Cf. also Untersuchung über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze, W. ii. pp. 183-4: “Augustine has said, ‘I know well what time is, but if any one asks me, I cannot tell.’”
[454] For explanation of the phrase “construction of concepts” cf. below, pp. 132-3.