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What in the appearance is not conditioned by time, space and causality is that in which the thing in itself makes itself known immediately

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That in the appearance which is not conditioned by time, space and causality, nor reducible to them, nor to be explained according to them, will be precisely that in which what appears, the thing in itself, makes itself known immediately.

Umgekehrt aber wird Dasjenige in der Erscheinung, was nicht durch Zeit, Raum und Kausalität bedingt, noch auf diese zurückzuführen, noch nach diesen zu erklären ist, gerade Das seyn, worin sich unmittelbar das Erscheinende, das Ding an sich kund giebt.

Conversely, however, that in the appearance which is not conditioned by time, space and causality, nor reducible to them, nor to be explained according to them, will be precisely that in which what appears, the thing in itself, makes itself known immediately.

Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Erster Band Zweites Buch, § 24, second paragraph, opening (ZA page not given; Grisebach's pagination, which the source marks, pp. 175–176)

§ 24, second paragraph, the sentence beginning »Umgekehrt aber«. The sentence states where the thing in itself »sich unmittelbar ... kund giebt«, not that it is cognized immediately, which § 22 says of the will (c-schopenhauer-will-not-inferred-but-immediately-known); the two are distinct statements and the map links neither to the other. No attack link is set on Kant's A 42 / B 59 (c-kant-things-in-themselves-unknown): »sich kund geben« says where the thing in itself makes itself known, not that it is cognized, and § 24's own later sentences keep the forces »qualitates occultae«; a reader may dispute the absence. The sentence before it says what in the appearance is conditioned by the forms, plurality, change, matter, and that all of it attaches to the form, not to what appears. What follows for the sciences is c-schopenhauer-mathematics-and-etiology-never-penetrate-inner-nature.

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