A 1786 essay by Immanuel Kant arguing that spatial orientation — knowing left from right in the dark — relies on an internal, subjective feeling irreducible to external objective cues.
Established that even the most basic acts of spatial orientation depend on an a priori subjective sense, anticipating later phenomenological accounts of embodied cognition.
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