Critical Notes — Chapter LII: Kant’s Theory of Space (§§ 432–436)

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The Three-Cornered Debate: Kant, Russell, and Hoenen

Russell (§434) and Hoenen (De Noetica Geometriae, Caput I–II & IV) both reject Kant’s subjective a priori form of sensibility, yet diverge sharply on what replaces it: Russell banishes intuition completely from pure mathematics into hypothetico-deductive logicism, whereas Hoenen rehabilitates objective Aristotelian-Thomistic intellective intuition abstracted from sensory phantasms (resolutio ad sensum) to ground the truth of first principles.