From this, however, it does not follow that this appearance itself might not need to be further explained and derived, which would mean that the appearance of absoluteness itself would be further explained, in which case it would cease to be absoluteness, and the appearance thereof would be transformed into an illusion just as it indeed also appears to be the case that certain things exist in space and time, independent of us; and yet this appearance is further explained by transcendental philosophy (though it is not transformed into an illusion, for reasons that do not concern us here).