ABSTRACT
Under this heading are to be grouped together a number of interconnected doctrines all of which have already made their appearance at one point or another in the exposition, but which have not yet been systematically marshalled and displayed in the full extravagance of their mutual dependency. This must be done; partly because to Kant himself they seemed the indispensable framework of his thought, partly because my own reports of them so far have echoed without too much question a persistent note in Kant's exposition which, strangely enough, seems to have the effect of domesticating his doctrine, of disguising to some degree its phantasmagoric quality. Kant constantly speaks of "our" sensibility, of "our" understanding, says that this and that are "in us", that "we ourselves" are responsible for this or that; and it may seem surprising that the assured use of these personal pronouns and possessives - seeming to embrace Kant and his readers and the rest of humanity - should have any power to diminish the sense of the strangeness of doctrines which themselves show how very far from the ordinary this use of these words must be. Yet that Kant's use of these words does have something of this effect becomes clear, I think, when we expel them, as I shall try to do, from the statement of the doctrines.
