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SECOND CLASS OF OBJECTS FOR THE SUBJECT. 127
faculty of judgment, as the mediator between the intuitive
and the abstract or discursive faculty of knowing in
other words, between the Understanding and the Reason.
32. Transcendental Truth.
The forms of intuitive, empirical knowledge which lie
within the Understanding and pure Sensibility may, as con
ditions of all possible experience, be the grounds of a judg
ment, which is in that case synthetical a priori. As neverthe
less this kind of judgment has material truth, its truth is
transcendental ; because the judgment is based not only on
experience, but on the conditions of all possible experience
lying within us. For it is determined precisely by that
which determines experience itself : namely, either by the
forms of Space and of Time perceived by us a priori, or by
the causal law, known to us a priori. Propositions such
as : two straight lines do not include a space ; nothing
happens without a cause; matter can neither come into
being nor perish ; 3 x 7 = 21, are examples of this kind
of judgment. The whole of pure Mathematics, and no
less my tables of the Prcedicabilia a priori, 1
most of Kant s theorems in his
as well as
"
Metaphysische Anfangsgriinde
derNaturwissenschaft," may, properly speaking, be
adduced in corroboration of this kind of truth.
. 33. Metalogical Truth.
Lastly, a judgment may be founded on the formal con
ditions of all thinking, which are contained in the Eeason ;
and in this case its truth is of a kind which seems to me best
denned as metalogical truth. This expression has nothing
at all to do with the
"
"
Metalogicus written by Johannes
1 See
"
Die Welt a. W. u. V." 3rd edition, vol. ii. ch. iv.
p. 55.