Benquo comments on Can You Prove Two Particles Are Identical? - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 April 2008 07:06AM

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Comment author: Benquo 14 April 2008 01:36:55PM 0 points [-]

"Kant's conclusion that space, by its very nature, was flat. Turned out, Kant was just reproducing an invisible assumption built into how his parietal cortex was modeling space. Kant's imaginings were evidence only about his imagination - grist for cognitive science, not physics."

Wasn't Kant explicitly taking about which things were possible to imagine? Your point still stands, though, since certainly plenty of people seem to have read him the way you did prior to Gauss, Lobachevsky, Einstein, etc.