But if we once take the liberty of assuming a reality subsisting by itselfb out side the entire field of sensibility, then appearances are regardedC only as contingent ways intelligible objects are represented by beings who are themselves intelligences; and because of this, nothing is left for us but the analogy by which we utilize concepts of experience in making some sort of concept of intelligible things, with which we have not the least acquaintance as they are in themselves.