Thus, on the basis of criticism or rather on the basis of this displacement of being in relation to representation, of which Kantian doctrine is the first philosophical statement a fundamental correlation is established: on the one hand there are metaphysics of the object, or, more exactly, metaphysics of that never objectifiable depth from which objects rise up towards our superficial knowledge; and, on the other hand, there are philosophies that set themselves no other task than the observation of precisely that which is given to positive knowledge.