That this resolution of the famous argument into a paralogism is entirely correct shows itself clearly if one reviews in this connection the general remark to the systematic representation of the principlesb and the section on noumena, where it was proved that the concept of a thing that can exist for itself as subject but not as a mere predicate car ries with it no objective reality at all,.e., that one cannot know whether it applies to any object, since one has no insight into the possibility of such a way of existing, and consequently that it yields absolutely no cognition.