At this point, the intensive factors of individuation take themselves as objects in such a manner as to constitute the highest element of a transcendent sensibility, the sentiendum; and from faculty to faculty, the ground is borne within thought still as the unthought and unthinking, but this unthought has become the necessary empirical form in which, in the fractured I (Bouvard and Pecuchet), thought at last thinks the cogitandutn; in other words, the transcendent element which can only be thought ('the fact that we do not yet think' or 'What is stupidity?').