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The theorems of the Transcendental Aesthetic are among the irrefutable truths, a real, great discovery in metaphysics

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The proofs of the Transcendental Aesthetic have such full power of conviction that I count its theorems among the irrefutable truths, as they also without doubt belong to the most consequential, and are therefore to be regarded as the rarest thing in the world, a real, great discovery in metaphysics.

Ihre Beweise haben so volle Ueberzeugungskraft, daß ich die Lehrsätze derselben den unumstößlichen Wahrheiten beizähle, wie sie ohne Zweifel auch zu den folgenreichsten gehören, mithin als das Seltenste auf der Welt, nämlich eine wirkliche, große Entdeckung in der Metaphysik, zu betrachten sind.

Its proofs have such full power of conviction that I count its theorems among the irrefutable truths, as they also without doubt belong to the most consequential, and are therefore to be regarded as the rarest thing in the world, namely a real, great discovery in metaphysics.

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Erster Band Anhang, Kritik der Kantischen Philosophie, the paragraph beginning »Die transscendentale Aesthetik ist ein so überaus verdienstvolles Werk« (ZA II 536–537)

The second sentence of the paragraph on the Transcendental Aesthetic, in the first person, which the statement keeps. It endorses the Aesthetic's theorems as a whole and names none of them; the map therefore sets no link shares_premise_with on it, since the convention asks that both statements word the proposition they share, and the comparison x-thing-in-itself says so under the shared premises. The theorems the map holds of Kant's Aesthetic are those on space, A 24 / B 38 and A 26 / B 42 (c-kant-space-a-priori, c-kant-space-not-of-things-in-themselves, c-kant-space-subjective-condition-of-sensibility), and the sharing of each is set on the Schopenhauer sentences that state them (the appendix at ZA II 534, §§ 23–24). The paragraph's own ground for the endorsement follows in the next sentences (c-schopenhauer-a-priori-cognitions-explained-only-as-forms-of-the-intellect, a-schopenhauer-cognitions-a-priori-are-the-intellects-own-forms). »Lehrsätze« is rendered »theorems«, »unumstößlich« »irrefutable«.

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