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In order to put this whole affair in a fuller light, let us consider it as a question in natural philosophy, which we must determine by experience and observation. It therefore has subjective reality, in reference to our internal experience, that is, I have really the representation of time and of my determinations therein. But the same is the case with this law as with other pure a priori representations (e.g., space and time), which we can draw in perfect clearness and completeness from experience, only because we had already placed them therein, and by that means, and by that alone, had rendered experience possible. That is to say, a proof in the sphere of transcendental cognition does not show that the given conception (that of an event, for example) leads directly to another conception (that of a cause)--for this would be a saltus which nothing can justify; but it shows that experience itself, and consequently the object of experience, is impossible without the connection indicated by these conceptions. - Hence this determination of my existence, and consequently my internal experience itself, must depend on something permanent which is not in me, which can be, therefore, only in something external to me, to which I must look upon myself as being related.
We cannot rely, that it is only in one part: For experience convinces us, that every part has the same relish. But empirical cognition is experience; consequently no a priori cognition is possible for us, except of objects of possible experience.* We should only be able to say, "so common experience teaches us," but not "it must be so." They are valid as rules, through which, in general, experience is possible; and they instruct us respecting experience, and not by means of it. And the truth of this proposition itself rests upon the consideration that such an experience must represent to us phenomena as limited by nothing or the mere void, on which our continued regress by means of perception must abut--which is impossible. * Trouble with the law?