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It is not within the scope of an expository paper to consider on their merits the issues involved in the Kantian polemic. The understanding of his discussion, however, is certainly lightened by keeping in mind the various forms of supposed Leibnizian doctrine which he opposes,—the belief that space and time are confusedly apprehended relations of things in themselves, and therefore known a posteriori; and the theory that space and time are relations of phenomena, which can be only confusedly known, The doctrine of Kant appears, moreover, in truer historical perspective when it is remembered that the theories he opposes are, in truth, not those of Leibniz at all; but that Leibniz probably holds, with Kant, that space and time are subjective principles, ordering forms of consciousness. .