Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.
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What this quote means
Change and motion are only understood through the concept of time and experience.
Immanuel Kant highlights the relationship between time, change, and motion, asserting that our understanding of motion arises from our experiences within space and time. He argues that without the framework of time, the idea of motion becomes unintelligible, as physical space alone does not inherently possess the capacity for movement; rather, motion is a perceptual experience grounded in empirical observations.
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Example use cases
In a lecture on the nature of reality, one might use this quote to illustrate how our perception of existence is tied to our understanding of time.
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