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CHAPTEE IV.
ON THE FIRST CLASS OP OBJECTS FOB THE SUBJECT, AND
THAT FORM OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON
WHICH PREDOMINATES IN IT.
17. General Account of this Class of Objects.
^ I ^HE first class of objects possible to our representative
JL faculty, is that of intuitive, complete, empirical repre
sentations. They are intuitive as opposed to mere thoughts,
i.e. abstract conceptions ; they are complete, inasmuch as,
according to Kant s distinction, they not only contain the
formal, but also the material part of phenomena ; and they
are empirical, partly as proceeding, not from a mere con
nection of thoughts, but from an excitation of feeling in
our sensitive organism, as their origin, to which they con
stantly refer for evidence as to their reality : partly also
because they are linked together, according to the united
laws of Space, Time and Causality, in that complex without
beginning or end which forms our Empirical Reality.
As,
nevertheless, according to the result of Kant s teaching,
this Empirical Reality does not annul their Transcendental
Ideality, we shall consider them here, where we have only
to do with the formal elements of knowledge, merely as
representations.
18. Outline of a Transcendental Analysis of Empirical
Reality.
The forms of these representations are those of the inner
and outer sense ; namely, Time and Space. But these are