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What objects are in themselves remains entirely unknown to us

The passage

What objects may be in themselves, apart from all the receptivity of our sensibility, remains entirely unknown to us; we know nothing but our way of perceiving them.

A 42 / B 59 states it directly (AA 3:65.17–19), and A 43 / B 60 adds that no degree of distinctness in our intuition would bring us nearer to the constitution of objects in themselves (AA 3:65.28–31). Prolegomena §13, Anmerkung II, repeats it while insisting that the things so unknown are given to us and are real (AA 4:289.03–12).

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