In the following we argue that a proper notion of abstract space was articulated, in parallel, by J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling at the beginning of the 19th century. Two obvious remarks could be make which we wish to deflect – that any notion of space in the post-Kantian tradition was merely a form of apperception, and secondly, that such a statement is unsurprising given the influence of Kant on Fichte, and Fichte on Schelling. However, we wish to argue that both Fichte and Schelling sought to more deeply ground abstract space, albeit in different means, than Kant would allow. Focusing on Schelling’s Universal Deduction of the Dynamic Process (1800) and Fichte’s Erlangen Logic (1805), we wish to argue that abstract space is the space of an original activity (natural or rational) which produces or establishes the conditions of representation of objective space. Thus, they both anticipate the structural approach that allows for the development of modern mathematics and geometry in terms of determination of a virtual determinable continuum.
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