Similar to those who argue against the “completed” infinite by applying the standard of the
successive infinite, already Immanuel Kant thought that he can bring his first antinomy to
a ‘solution’ by taking recourse merely to ‘endlessness’ (i.e., the successive infinite).
In his
remarks about the first thesis of the second antinomy Kant states that space is not a
compositum (in reaction to atomistic views of space), since in determining its parts space is a
totum.
He therefore does have an eye for the totality character of spatial continuity.
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