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It ought not to be objected that in this proposition, which expresses the perception of one's self, an internal experience is asserted, and that consequently the rational doctrine of the soul which is founded upon it, is not pure, but partly founded upon an empirical principle. In transcendental cognition, so long as we are dealing only with conceptions of the understanding, we are guided by possible experience. Did not the belief consist in a sentiment different from our mere conception, whatever objects were presented by the wildest imagination, would be on an equal footing with the most established truths founded on history and experience. The object of all possible experience being the world, it is called the cosmological proof. The understanding gives to experience, according to the subjective and formal conditions, of sensibility as well as of apperception, the rules which alone make this experience possible. For such an axiom could not exert a stronger influence on the extension and rectification of our knowledge, otherwise than by procuring for the principles of the understanding the most widely expanded employment in the field of experience. This is that an event cannot be determined in time, and consequently cannot form a part of experience, unless it stands under this dynamical law. This reasoning a priori is confirmed by experience.