From my investigations, however, it resulted that the objects with which we deal in experience are by no means things in themselves but merely appearances, and that, although with things in themselves one cannot at all te and indeed cannot possibly have insight into how, if A is posited, it is to be contradictory for, which is entirely different from, not to be posited (the necessity of the connection between A as cause and as effect), yet one can readily think that as appearances they must necessarily be linked in one experience in a certain way (e.g., with regard to time relations) and cannot be separated without contradicting that linkage by means of which this experience, wherein they are objects and wherein alone they are cognizable by us, is possible.