Opus Postumum (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant in Translation)

Opusposturnurn E D I T E D , W l T l I AN IN'TKODUCTXON AND N O T E S , BY

ECKART F ~ R S T E R TRANSLATED R Y

ECMART F ~ R S T E RA N D MTCI-IAEE, ROSEN

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

IMMANUEL K A N T

object of my concept: the representation of the thing in itself and then in appearance. Only the object in appearance can be determinable synthetically a priori, and form one of the subjects [Fach] of transcendental philosophy. N.B.: The thoroughgoing determination by perceptions, as a system of perceptions, is experience and can permit only approximation, not, however, apodicric certainty. Not empirical intuition with consciousness (perception) but the pure intuition ofthe formal element of combination (composition) of the manifold according to a principle (law), is the thought-enti9 (e~zsrationis) which precedes everyrhing material in the object, and subjectively, as appearance, forms a foundation. The object = x (the dabile) presupposes the unity of the composition of the manifold according to its form (the cogilabile), that is, as a principle of the form of the object in appearance wllich underlies it a priori. The thing in itseyis ens rationis. That light be no discharging motion (ejaculatio) of a matter but an undulating motion (undulatio).e~

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[Top margin] We must, with respect ro the intuition of an object in space or in time, at all times make the distinction bemeen the representation of the thing in itself and that of the same thing as appearance- although we can a~ributeto the former no predicates, but, as = x, can regrd it only as a correlate for the pure understanding (as cogitabile, not dabile) in which concepts, not things, are contrasted with one another. The proposition: All sense-objects are things in appearance (objecta phaenomena) to which a noumenon corresponds as the ground of their coordination; but no particular intuition (no noumenon aspeclabile) corresponds to the latter, for that would be a contradiction with respect to the subjective element of the principle. [LeJimargin] All synthetic a priori judgments are determinations of the object in general with respect to its relations in space and in time. The latter are mere appearances, that is, representations which relate to the object of intuition insofar as [the subject] is affected by it, and are the subjective element of the subject's self-affection (formally). Judgments through concepts are analytic (by the principle of identity), those through predicates of intuition are synthetic. Intuition itself is either pure intuition a priori or empirical. The intuition contains the representation of the object either as appearance or as it is in itsey(o6jenum vel phaenornenon vel nozdrnenon).