Of course, if the empirical philosopher with his antithesis had no other intention than to strike down the impertinent curiosity and pre sumptuousness of those who so far mistake the true vocationb of reason that they make most of insight and knowledge just where insight and knowledge really cease, trying to pass off what one should base on practical interests as furthering speculative interests, in order, whenever seems comfortable to them, to break off the thread of their physical in vestigations and, with a pretense of extending cognition, to attach it to transcendental ideas, by means of which one really knowsc