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In like manner, the second state, as reality (in the phenomenon), differs from the first, in which the reality of the second did not exist, as b from zero. That is to say, the consciousness of my own existence is at the same time an immediate consciousness of the existence of other things without me. The thought is always determined to pass from the impression to the idea, and from that particular impression to that particular idea, without any choice or hesitation. If, then, there is any proper mode of employing the faculty of pure reason--in which case there must be a canon for this faculty--this canon will relate, not to the speculative, but to the practical use of reason. For this very permanence is the ground on which we apply the category of substance to the phenomenon; and we should have been obliged to prove that in all phenomena there is something permanent, of the existence of which the changeable is nothing but a determination. For as the same object cannot, at the same time, be endowed with different qualities of the same sense, and as the same quality cannot resemble impressions entirely different; it evidently follows, that many of our impressions have no external model or archetype. SECT. VII OF CONTIGUITY AND DISTANCE IN SPACE AND TIME