Note 58 — Chapter III

This conclusion is also to be expected because, inconsistently with his real view, Kant is here (B. 41-2, M. 25-6) under the influence of the presupposition of our ordinary consciousness that in perception we are confronted by things in themselves, known to be spatial, and not by appearances produced by unknown things in themselves. Cf. (B. 41, M. 25) "and thereby of obtaining immediate representation of them [i. e. objects];" and (B. 42, M. 26) "the receptivity of the subject to be affected by objects necessarily precedes all perceptions of these objects." These sentences identify things in themselves and bodies in space, and thereby imply that in empirical perception we perceive things in themselves and as they are.