We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori." in the context of "Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.