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A noumenon is to be understood only in the negative sense

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What we call noumenon must be understood only in the negative sense, as a thing insofar as it is not an object of our sensible intuition; the positive sense assumes an intellectual intuition that is not ours and whose possibility we cannot see.

B 307 draws the distinction between the two senses (AA 3:209.32–210.02); B 308–309 concludes that, since intellectual intuition lies absolutely outside our faculty of cognition, what we call noumenon must be understood only in the negative sense (AA 3:210.24–34).

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