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SS 7. Our table of the categories suggests considerations of some importance, which may perhaps have significant results in regard to the scientific form of all rational cognitions. To these deserving men, who so happily combine profundity of view with a talent for lucid exposition--a talent which I myself am not conscious of possessing--I leave the task of removing any obscurity which may still adhere to the statement of my doctrines. For what of analysis, that is, mere dissection of conceptions, is contained in one or other, is not the aim of, but only a preparation for metaphysics proper, which has for its object the extension, by means of synthesis, of our a priori knowledge. This medium of doing business is skyrocketing, and we are reaping the benefits, daily. Consequently, no substance; consequently, nothing would exist. Nay, the sensuous internal intuition of the mind (as the object of consciousness), the determination of which is represented by the succession of different states in time, is not the real, proper self, as it exists in itself--not the transcendental subject--but only a phenomenon, which is presented to the sensibility of this, to us, unknown being.