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By exposition, I mean the clear, though not detailed, representation of that which belongs to a conception; and an exposition is metaphysical when it contains that which represents the conception as given a priorI. 1. Space is not a conception which has been derived from outward experiences. and, although they do not transcend phenomena as regards their mode, but are concerned solely with the world of sense (and not with noumena), nevertheless carry their synthesis to a degree far above all possible experience--it still seems to me that we can, with perfect propriety, designate them cosmical conceptions. In the man of the best sense and longest experience, this authority is never entire; since even such-a-one must be conscious of many errors in the past, and must still dread the like for the future. But where will he find the knowledge which can enable him to enounce synthetical judgements in regard to things which transcend the region of experience? Consequently the coexistence of substances in space cannot be cognized in experience otherwise than under the precondition of their reciprocal action. For example, imperfect experience may represent the orbits of the planets as circular.