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SECOND CLASS OF OBJECTS FOR THE SUBJECT. 129
endeavouring, for instance, to conceive a change without a
preceding cause, or a passing into or out of being of
Matter, we become aware that it is impossible ; more
over we recognise this impossibility to be an objective
its root lies in our intellect : for we could not
one, although
otherwise bring it to consciousness in a subjective way.
There is, on the whole, a strong likeness and connection
between transcendental and metalogical truths, which
shows that they spring from a common root. In this
chapter we see the Principle of Sufficient Reason chiefly as
metalogical truth, whereas in the last it appeared as
transcendental truth and in the next one it will again be
seen as transcendental truth under another form. In the
present treatise I am taking special pains, precisely on
this account, to establish the Principle of Sufficient Reason,
as a judgment having a fourfold reason ; by which I do
not mean four different reasons leading cont ngently to
the same judgment, but one reason presenting itself under
a fourfold aspect: and this is what I call its Fourfold
Root. The other three metalogical truths so strongly
resemble one another, that in considering them one is
almost necessarily induced to search for their common
expression, as I have done in the Ninth Chapter of the
Second Volume of my chief work. On the other hand, they
differ considerably from the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
If we were to seek an analogue for the three other meta
logical truths among transcendental truths, the one I should
choose would be this : Substance, I mean Matter, is per
manent.
34. Reason.
As the class of representations I have dealt with in
this chapter belongs exclusively to Man, and as all that
distinguishes human life so forcibly from that of animals
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