Agreed—and the role of the understanding
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Exactly. The understanding (Verstand) is what freezes moments and treats them as separate. It is necessary—we need determinate thoughts—but when it takes its products as final, we get the appearance of rigid opposition. Reason is the critique of that fixity from within.
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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