By contrast, if the a priori law can be regarded as the determining basis of the action and hence the action can be regarded as determined by pure practical reason, then the judgment as to whether or not something is an object of pure practical reason is entirely independent of that comparison with our physical ability, and the question is only whether we may will an action that is directed to the existence of an object if making this object actual were under our control; hence the moral possibility of the action must precede that judgment for here the determining basis of the action is not the object but the law of the will.