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34 THE FOURFOLD BOOT. [CHAP. IV.
19. Immediate Presence of Representations.
Now as, notwithstanding this union through the Under
standing of the forms of the inner and outer sense in repre
senting Matter and with it a permanent outer world, all
immediate knowledge is nevertheless acquired by the Subject
through the inner sense alone the outer sense being again
Object for the inner, which in its turn perceives the percep
tions of the outer and as therefore, with respect to the
immediate presence of representations in its consciousness,
the Subject remains under the rule of Time alone, as the
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form of the inner sense : it follows, that only one representa
tion can be present to it (the Subject) at the same time,
although that one may be very complicated. When we
speak of representations as immediately present, we mean,
that they are not only known in the union of Time and Space
effected by the Understanding an intuitive faculty, as we
shall soon see through which the collective representa
tion of empirical reality arises, but that they are known in
mere Time alone, as representations of the inner sense, and
just at the neutral point at which its two currents sepa
rate, called the present. The necessary condition men
tioned in the preceding paragraph for the immediate pre
sence of a representation of this class, is its causal action
upon our senses and consequently upon our organism,
which itself belongs to this class of objects, and is there
fore subject to the causal law which predominates in it
and which we are now about to examine. Now as therefore,
on the one hand, according to the laws of the inner and outer
world, the Subject cannot stop short at that one represen
but as, on the other hand, there is no coexistence
tation ;
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Compare Kant,
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Krit. d. r. Vern." Elementarlehre. Abschnitt ii.
Schllisse a. d. Begr. b and c. 1st edition, pp. 33 and 34 5 5th edition,
p. 49. (Transl. M. Mviller, p. 29, b and c.)