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comes the third moment of Kant's thought, which
was only made prominent in the Second Edition,
not, as Kant truly says, that it was not already
in the book, but that it was an idea in which
Kant's mind was so completely immersed that
he failed to see the necessity of making an
explicit statement of it until Fichte misinterpreted
him. It is really a most luminous
and central element of Kant's thought. I
may say that it is the very Sun round which
all the rest revolves. This third moment consists
in the flat denial that the metaphysical
conceptions do not apply
Kant never said that. What he
said is that those conceptions do not apply

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comes the third moment of Kant's thought, which
was only made prominent in the Second Edition,
not, as Kant truly says, that it was not already
in the book, but that it was an idea in which
Kant's mind was so completely immersed that
he failed to see the necessity of making an
explicit statement of it until Fichte misinterpreted
him. It is really a most luminous
and central element of Kant's thought. I
may say that it is the very Sun round which
all the rest revolves. This third moment consists
in the flat denial that the metaphysical
conceptions do not apply
Kant never said that.
What he said is that those conceptions do not apply