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FIRST CLASS OF OBJECTS FOR THE SUBJECT. 33
tion, and arises as a collective representation, forming a
complex, held together by the forms of the principle
of sufficient reason, but whose limits are problematical.
Each single representation belonging to this class is a part
of this complex, each one taking its place in it according
to laws known to us a priori; in it therefore countless
objects coexist, because Substance, i.e. Matter, remains
permanent in spite of the ceaseless flow of Time, and be
cause its states change in spite of the rigid immobility of
Space. In this complex, in short, the whole objective, real
world exists for us. The reader who may be interested in
this, will find the present rough sketch of the analysis of
empirical reality further worked out in 4 of the first
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volume of Die Welt als Wille und Yorstellung," where
a closer explanation is given of the way in which the Un
derstanding effects this union and thus creates for itself
the empirical world. He will also find a very important
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help in the table, Prcedicabilia apriori of Time, Space, and
Matter," which is added to the fourth chapter of the second
volume of the same work, and which I recommend to his
attention, as it especially shows how the contrasts of Time
and Space are equally balanced in Matter, as their product,
under the form of Causality.
We shall now proceed to give a detailed exposition of
that function of the Understanding which is the basis of
empirical reality ; only we must first, by a few incidental
explanations, remove the more immediate objections which
the fundamental idealism of the view I have adopted might
encounter.
Vol. i. p. 12, and seqq. of the 1st edition j p. 9 of the 3rd edition.