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As regards the Metaphysical Exposition of space, its method is to begin with certain very general thoughts about space (e.g. that each subject thinks that there is only one, and not a multiplicity of, spaces in which he can place objects), and then to show that such thoughts can only be justified if space is a pure (or a priori) intuition. Kant presumably takes it that the proponents of the opposing views of space acknowledge that any acceptable view must accommodate these ideas. I shall follow the text of the B edition, which is divided into four arguments. (The A edition has five arguments; but the third is replaced in the B edition by the Transcendental Exposition.)