Kant Solves Space and Time

In the first two sections of his Transcendental Aesthetic, Kant asserts the "empirical reality" of both space and time. He emphasizes that time has "objective validity in respect of all objects which allow of ever being given to our senses", because all experience is sensory, and we cannot sense without time.

Kant makes it clear that space and time are not absolute reality; they are the form of our inner intuition and not the form of the objects themselves. This is interesting because it limits all human thoughts of space and time to a specific sphere of truth, namely the form of our inner intuition. The problems usually associated with space and time (such as wondering if the universe is spatially and temporally infinite, among others) are largely null and void, for all statements rest on some assumption of the absolute reality of space and time.

On the other hand, Kant leaves "empirical knowledge unaffected" which seems puzzling, for if space and time are not absolutely real then how can we trust our experience? This fear can be assuaged though, since space and time are not mere lenses on our inner intuition as regards to experience, but the actual form of our inner intuition itself. Therefore space and time are not to be doubted in their empirical reality, for they are the very fabric of our experience and as such are not things to be doubted (in an empirical sense)

Of course this does not discount the transcendental ideality of space and time, but it seems that Kant wants to distinguish himself from full idealism in his discussion of space and time's empirical reality.