ABSTRACT
One of the most important achievements of the Critique of Pure Reason is to have given the problem of the relationship between “concept” and “object” an entirely new framing and a fundamentally different methodological sense. The concept is nothing other than the consciousness of such a rule and of the unity that is posited through it. The concept no longer remains bound to the “reality” of things but rises to the free construction of the “possible.” It draws precisely what has never and at no time happened into the sphere of consideration and sets it up as a norm and intellectual standard. The deeper systematic ground for the difficulties that arise, however, lies in the fact that generally the attempt is undertaken to explain a fundamentally unintuitive relationship by resorting to analogies taken from the world of intuitive objects and the relations prevailing between them.
