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That is, it must determine a priori the consequences which are given in experience and which are supposed to follow from the hypothesis itself. For the substitution of the logical possibility of the conception--the condition of which is that it be not self-contradictory, for the transcendental possibility of things--the condition of which is that there be an object corresponding to the conception, is a trick which can only deceive the inexperienced.* Other forms of intuition besides those of space and time, other forms of understanding besides the discursive forms of thought, or of cognition by means of conceptions, we can neither imagine nor make intelligible to ourselves; and even if we could, they would still not belong to experience, which is the only mode of cognition by which objects are presented to us. Now as these conceptions always possess the character of necessity, experience is possible only by means of a representation of the necessary connection of perception. It is not a priori manifest why phenomena should contain anything of this kind (we are of course debarred from appealing for proof to experience, for the objective validity of this conception must be demonstrated a priori), and it hence remains doubtful a priori, whether such a conception be not quite void and without any corresponding object among phenomena. We need not, then, have recourse to scholastic arguments; we may always admit the truth of those propositions which are consistent with the speculative interests of reason in the sphere of experience, and form, moreover, the only means of uniting the speculative with the practical interest.