Thus, since the unconditioned is necessarily contained in the absolute totality of the regressive synthesis of the manifold in appearance (following the categories, which represent appearance as a series of conditions for a given conditioned), one might also leave it undecided whether and how this totality is to be brought about; here reason thus takes the path of proceeding from the idea of a totality, even though it really has as its final intent the unconditioned, whether of the whole series or one part of it.