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| | Critique of Pure Reason (Phenomena and Noumena) |
 | | P 268a Just for this reason the categories represent no special object, given to the understanding alone, but only serve to determine P 269a the transcendental object, which is the concept of something in general, through that which is given in sensibility, in order thereby to know appearances empirically under concepts of objects. |
 | | The division of objects into phenomena and noumena, and the world into a world of the senses and a world of the understanding, is therefore quite inadmissible in the positive sense although the distinction of concepts as sensible and intellectual is certainly legitimate. |
 | | remaining concepts for noumena, should still continue to signify something, since for their relation to any object more must be given than merely the unity of thought -- namely, in addition, a possible intuition, to which they may be applied. |
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