META 4: inception
if each of us had a different kind of sense perception - if we could only percieve things now as a bird now as a worm, now as a plant, or if one of us saw a stimulus as red, another as blue, while a third even heard the same stimulus as souns - then now one would speak of such a regularity of nature, rather, nature would be grasped only as a creation which is subjective in the highest degree
there exists no word for these intuitions; when man sees them he grows dumb, or else he speaks only in forbidden metaphors and in unherd-of combinations of concepts
the rational man, in fear of intuition, stands beside the intuitive man, who scorns abstraction; the latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic
the misplacement of the transcendental apperception may be the modern man's greatest failure; that within one fell swoop not only has one's perspective become universal but also law
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