That we subsequently hypostatize this idea of the sum total of all re ality, however, comes about because we dialectically transform the dis tributive unity of the use of the understanding in experience, into the collective unity of a whole of experience; and from this whole of ap pearance we think up an individual thing containing in itself all empirical reality, which then by means of the transcendental subreption we have already thought is confused with the concept of a thing that stands at the summit of the possibility of all things, providing the real conditions for their thoroughgoing determination.