Visual geometry

Philosophical Review 82 (1):3-34 (1973)
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We cannot imagine two straight lines intersecting at two points even though they may do so. In this case our abilities to imagine depend upon our abilities to visualise.

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10.2307/2184237

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reprint Hopkins, James (1982) "Visual geometry". In Walker, Ralph Charles Sutherland, Kant on Pure Reason, pp. : Oxford University Press (1982)

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Kant's transcendental imagination.Gary Banham - 2005 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
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