The Non-spatiality of Things in Themselves for Kant

I. IN THE Aesthet ic Kant argued from the a priori nature of our representation of space (and time) to its and transcendental ideality. By the empirical reality of the representation of space Kant meant its with respect to outer appearances or objects of human experience. Transcendental ideality, on the other hand, refers to its lack of objective validity with respect to the same objects considered as they are in themselves. Appearances, in other words, really are in space, but things in themselves are not. As Kant himself expressed this result: