A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason'

by Norman Kemp Smith

[625] Op. cit. § 10. Cf. above, p. 117 ff.

[626] Von dem ersten Grunde des Unterschiedes der Gegenden im Raume.

[627] Euler, Réflexions sur l’espace et le temps (1748). Vaihinger (ii. p. 530) points out that Kant may also have been here influenced by certain passages in the controversy between Leibniz and Clarke.

[628] Loc. cit., at the end.

[629] In the Dorpater manuscript, quoted by Erdmann in his edition of the Prolegomena, p. xcvii n.

[630] § 15 C.

[631] So also in the Metaphysical First Principles of Natural Science (1786), Erstes Hauptstück, Erklärung 2, Anmerkung 3.

[632] Cf. above, p. 105.

[633] A 289 = B 345.

[634] More exactly between the writing of the Metaphysical First Principles (in which as above noted the argument of the Prolegomena is endorsed) and 1787.