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a priori means of my consciousness by which I am able to 

 understand how the happening of specific complicated 

 results without pre-existing external specifying causes is 

 possible. It has often been remarked already that certain 

 other most general terms relating to what is given have a 

 similar origin. For instance, I only understand " causality ' 

 as the necessary relation between a certain earlier and a 

 certain later state of events in space, because I am able, so 

 to speak, to feel causality, or, in particular, " force." Again, 

 I " understand " reality in the form of " substance and in- 

 herence " only because I feel the permanence of my Ego 

 in spite of its varying states. In exactly the same sense I 

 feel that I am a willing agent as far as the origin of the 

 Complicated out of the Non-complicated is concerned. 



At this point our analysis will be resumed in the next 

 chapter. But at first we must leave pure analysis, and 

 must enter into very important discussions of a polemical 

 nature. 



