However, the supreme importance of Kant’s statement does not consist in justly distributing the roles of the mind and its object – the world – between them in the process of ‘mind forming an idea of the world’, because, as I just pointed out, it is hardly possible to discriminate the two. The great thing was to form the idea that this one thing – mind or world – may well be capable of other forms of appearance that we cannot grasp and that do not imply the notions of space and time. This means an imposing liberation from our inveterate prejudice. There probably are other orders of appearance
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