What Peter Didn't Know. Reflections on Spatial Size
The person of the initial thought experiment knows all non-indexical physical facts about things of the external world but not their real size. This highlights a tension between two rather uncontroversial views about spatial objects: (1) the particular size of such objects is non-conceptual;
(2) truths about a quantity like size are relational. The problem is that relational truths about size are conceptual. And in order to distinguish particular from conceptual size, one seemingly needs a measure of 'worlds'. I argue that in the role as embodied agent, man may supply such a measure.
This is also taken as an argument for Kantian transcendental idealism and empirical realism.
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2018
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