Ideas, produced by the spontaneity of understanding and reason. 

 Whether there are objects, or things-in-themselves, not given in 

 but supposed to correspond to our imaginations and moral demands, 

 remains a matter of no moment to philosophy or science. About 

 such supposed objects, transcending all thought, nothing what- 

 ever can be said. That they exist, that they affect our lives, 

 these statements can mean for us absolutely nothing. To the 

 importance of our imaginations and moral demands, however, 

 sufficient attention has seldom been given. 



So then, although Kant pointed the way to the solution of this 

 object-idea fallacy, he was unable, entirely, to throw off the shackles 

 of the past. The dogma of rationalism, that there are real objects 

 different from the objects given in experience, sense or otherwise, 

 still persisted. That dogma still persists, and he who would criticize 

 the work of Immanuel Kant, whether such a one be natural scientist 

 or philosopher, should see to it that he himself is free from any 

 such metaphysical presupposition. 



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