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comes the third moment of Kant's thought, which was only made prominent in the Second Edition, mot; as Kant truly sayd, 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 mis-interpreted him.
It is really a mist luminous and central element of Kant's thought.
I may by that it is the very Sun round which all the rest revolves.
This third moment consists in the flat denial that the metaphysical conceptions so not apply to things in themselves.
Kant never said that.
What he said is that those conceptions do not apply