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Everything the understanding draws from itself serves only for use in experience

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Everything that the understanding draws from itself without borrowing it from experience it nevertheless has for no other purpose than use in experience; its principles contain nothing but, as it were, the pure schema for possible experience.

A 236 / B 295 states it as the result of the Analytic (AA 3:203.04–09). Prolegomena §57 says the same of "Zeit, Raum und alle Verstandesbegriffe": they have and can have "keinen andern Gebrauch ..., als blos Erfahrung möglich zu machen", and stripped of that condition the pure concepts "ganz und gar kein Object bestimmen" (4:350.27–33).

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