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An inference by the law of causality cannot bring a thing in itself into empirical intuition, which remains a mere process in us

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The whole empirical intuition remains throughout on subjective ground and soil, a mere process in us, and nothing wholly different from it and independent of it can be brought into it as a thing in itself, or shown to be a necessary presupposition, by an inference according to the law of causality.

Anhang, ZA II 534–535: »Mithin bleibt die ganze empirische Anschauung durchweg auf subjektivem Grund und Boden, als ein bloßer Vorgang in uns, und nichts von ihr gänzlich Verschiedenes, von ihr Unabhängiges, läßt sich als ein Ding an sich hineinbringen, oder als nothwendige Voraussetzung darthun.« The conclusion of the argument linked under Depends on. The words »by an inference according to the law of causality« in the statement are the map's, limiting the claim to what the paragraph is about, Kant's »Schluß nach dem Kausalitätsgesetz« (ZA II 534); the next sentence of the text draws the positive counterpart, c-schopenhauer-thing-in-itself-reached-only-through-self-consciousness.

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