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Of all the cosmological ideas, however, it is that occasioning the fourth antinomy which compels us to venture upon this step. 1. As general logic, it makes abstraction of all content of the cognition of the understanding, and of the difference of objects, and has to do with nothing but the mere form of thought. The first kind arises in the soul originally, from unknown causes. We can also, however, make a positive use of this principle, that is, not merely to banish falsehood and error (in so far as it rests upon contradiction), but also for the cognition of truth. Thus I construct a triangle, by the presentation of the object which corresponds to this conception, either by mere imagination, in pure intuition, or upon paper, in empirical intuition, in both cases completely a priori, without borrowing the type of that figure from any experience. For what means, would he say, of persuading mankind, that the transgressions of conjugal duty are more infamous than any other kind of injustice, when it is evident they are more excusable, upon account of the greatness of the temptation? And what possibility of giving a backwardness to the approaches of a pleasure, to which nature has inspired so strong a propensity; and a propensity that it is absolutely necessary in the end to comply with, for the support of the species? All this was sufficiently evident with respect to man. For in that case, this form of the inward intuition can be represented prior to the objects, and consequently a priorI. (b) Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state.