judgements of the Object, whether affirmative or negative; and we do not know whether we are judging about something or about nothing.

The concept of a causality through purposes (of art) has at all events objective reality, and also the concept of a causality according to the mechanism of nature. But the concept of a causality of nature according to the rule of purposes, — still more of a Being such as cannot be given us in experience, a Being who is the original cause of nature, — though it can be thought without contradiction, yet is of no avail for dogmatic determinations. For, since it cannot be derived from experience, and also is not requisite for the possibility thereof, its objective reality can in no way be assured. But even if this could be done, how can I number among the products of nature