For in such a case, intellec tual presuppositions and faith on behalf of our practical concern would not be taken from us; only one could not put them forward with the title and pomp of science and rational insight, because real specula tive knowledge can encounter no object anywhere except that of expe rience, and if one transgresses its boundary, then the synthesis that attempts cognitions which are new and independent of experience has no substratum of intuition on which it could be exercised.